Issa Rae Reacts to Her Emmy Nomination: "I Gotta Give My 'Insecure' Family Love"

The final season of "Insecure" was among the winners when the 2022 Emmy nominations were announced on July 12. The show, which ended in December 2021, was nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for Issa Rae, plus Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Cinematography for a On-Camera Series. single (half an hour). But the news still left fans disappointed, as the show missed out on an Outstanding Drama Series nomination, and no one else from the cast received a nod.

Rae reacted to the news on Tuesday afternoon in an Instagram story. “Emmy nominee on a Tuesday?! A Tuesday? she said with a big smile. "Gotta give love to my 'Insecure' family, Prentice [Penny], Yvonne [Orji], Jay [Ellis], our amazing writers," she continued. She also gave love to Nena Erb and Ava Berkofsky, who received the show's other two nominations. Then she shouted out other nominees, including Robin Thede and "A Black Lady Sketch Show," Quinta Brunson and "Abbott Elementary," and her "Insecure" co-star Natasha Rothwell, who was nominated for her work on " The White Lotus". Rae ended her video by shouting "Just everybody here wins, everybody black who does it," a reference to her own viral comments about rooting for everybody black at the 2017 Emmys.

“Insecure” has already been nominated 11 times, including two nominations for Rae as lead actress and one for Orji a...