Sofia Vergara nabs Emmy nomination for Lead Actress In A Limited Series for Griselda – making her the second Latina to receive the nod after Anya-Taylor Joy

Sofia Vergara has been nominated for an Emmy in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Short Series, Anthology Series or Movie for her role in the Netflix series Griselda.

The 52-year-old actress received the nomination today after playing the real-life Colombian drug lord in the six-episode limited series.

The nomination makes Vergara the second Latina ever to be nominated in that specific category. Anya Taylor-Joy, who has Argentinian ancestry, was the first Latina to be nominated — and subsequently win — in the same category in 2021 for The Queen’s Gambit.

Vergara’s competitors include Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country, Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry, Juno Temple in Fargo and Naomi Watts in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.

The nomination marks Vergara’s fifth Emmy nomination. She received nominations for Modern Family for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, but never won.

Vergara played Griselda Blanco in the six-episode series, which tells the story of how Blanco’s legendary reign paved the way for Colombia’s most notorious cartel.

Regarding the character, Sofia admitted on The Graham Norton Show that she got the idea for the series almost 15 years ago.

“It’s the true story of a woman no one ever suspected was one of the biggest drug dealers ever.”

“She created this crazy cartel and I was going crazy with the story. She was Colombian, an immigrant and a very hard, ruthless woman. She was a monster. It was the role for me!”

The beautiful lady, who is known for her iconic accent, also opened up about the pressure she felt to lose her accent in order to make it in Hollywood.

“I thought it wouldn’t be that hard, that I could take some lessons and play any role I wanted. It wasn’t – I spent a lot of money and a lot of hours trying and it got worse. I went to auditions and it was horrible.”

She also said she had to hide her curves to play her character.

“The hardest part was having to wear a wig, fake teeth, a fake nose and a plastic forehead. I also had to wear uncomfortable bras that weighed me down, making me look less Latin.”

He adds: “It was a complicated character for me, but it was my first film in Spanish, and that was so liberating.”

The 52-year-old actress received the nomination today after playing the role of a real-life Colombian drug lord in the Netflix miniseries

Vergara spent three hours every day in a makeup chair having prosthetics fitted that changed her appearance.

I wish she looked like this [1970s] era,” the star said during Netflix’s FYSEE event, per The sunBut she also had to [bit sexy]. She had to have something, because she had three husbands. She could have the boys.’

‘The teeth were fake. The nose, like, I had plastic, from here [touching her chin] over here. Over my eyebrows,’ she demonstrated to the audience.

‘I would tape my breasts and my ass. And they wouldn’t shake the ass. And it was [hot] in Los Angeles. I felt like I was dying,” she said.

Vergara spent three hours a day in a makeup chair getting prosthetics fitted to change her appearance for Griselda; photo March 2024

Her attempts to make things seem sincere came back to haunt her painfully.

She decided to change her posture by bending over and playing Griselda after seeing the way her aunt walked.

“When I did that in the third month, I woke up one morning and I couldn’t go to work,” she revealed. “I had a hernia.”

“At 51, you can’t just walk around and position your body [like that] for 16-hour workdays.

To make it to the end of filming, the Emmy nominee received painkillers from her doctor.

“I’ve ruined my back because I do that. The doctors said, ‘You’re crazy, you need to stretch and do things at 51.'”

Still, the actress enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to work with a Colombian director so much that she said she would do it again, but with a few changes.

“I would never want those prostheses again,” she said.