*Shonda Rhimes is worried the few black folks who won Emmys Sunday night might make the television industry think it has made enough progress.
While “Master of None” star Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win a comedy writing award, and “Atlanta” creator Donald Glover scored two trophies, one for comedy directing, Rhimes calls their historic win “embarrassing.”
“It’s embarrassing, frankly,” she said of the Emmys to Vanity Fair. “To me, it feels embarrassing that we are still in a place in which we still have to note these moments. … I’m hoping that it’s not a trend. I’m hoping that people don’t feel satisfied because they saw a lot of people win, and then think that we’re done.”
Rhimes, who created the hit TV drama “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” noted in a 2015 interview exactly why she hates the word “diversity.”
“It suggests something other. As if there is something unusual about telling stories involving women and people of color and LGBTQ characters on TV. I have a different word: normalizing. I’m normalizing TV. I am making TV look like the world looks.”
Read more from Rhimes’ interview with Vanity Fair here — and read more about Rhimes’ just-launched Shondaland.com website here.
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Meanwhile, although the Theater crowd is buzzing about Oprah Winfrey hitting Broadway — a source tells Page Six… keep dreaming.
Winfrey was spotted with five-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe at the Emmys on Sunday, leaving many enthused that she could be a step closer to making a Broadway debut.
But a source says of the pair: “They are not working on a play together. Oprah was at the Emmys because she was an executive producer on ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ and George was the director.”
In 2015, Winfrey was meant to star in Wolfe’s “Night, Mother” but allegedly got cold feet.
She then reportedly read for another Wolfe show, but that didn’t work out either.
Wolfe’s next directing Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh” for Scott Rudin.
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