Maya Rudolph became a two-time Emmy winner in the same week, as part of the week-long Creative Arts Emmys virtual ceremony, one for her SNL reenactment of Kamala Harris and the other for voicing the role of Connie the Hormone Monstress in Big Mouth on Netflix. Rudolph beat out Bette Midler, Wanda Sykes, Angela Bassett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and herself, as she was double nominated in the same category for her role as a judge inspired by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in The Good Place.
According to Deadline, Rudolph said her Good Place role was modeled on a very special real-life person, who sadly passed away on Friday—Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “I was actually thinking about The Good Place a lot and about how we modeled her robe after Ruth Bader Ginsberg and how much of that was an homage to an iconic human being. “When you think of a judge, when you think of all-knowing, when you think of powerful, when you think of all good, yeah, we modeled her robe after RBG, so that was pretty cool.”
Rudolph did not pre-record an acceptance speech for the virtual ceremony, explaining live after her win: “That feels a little presumptuous, and not to mention just physically, emotionally exhausting. If I’m going to experience defeat I’d rather not have gone through all the hair and makeup.”
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