Laverne Cox on Clean Slate Cancellation: ‘A Dagger to My Heart’

Laverne Cox Compared the cancellation of its Amazon Prime video series Clean slate Take “a dagger at [her] heart.”

“I always treat [the cancellation]», Cox, 52, said exclusively US Weekly When the Puerto Vallarta appointment was opened on Friday, April 25. “We discovered a few weeks before announcing it and I cried like a baby.”

Clean slate – that Cox has created and produced with the Costar George Wallace And Dan Ewen – Terminated in Desiree (Cox), 40, returning to his small hometown of Alabama to go out as a trans woman to her father (Wallace) after a 23 -year -old extinguished. Barrier confirmed Earlier in April, the premium video was not going forward with a second season.

“Of course, I had programs previously canceled, but I have never given the birth of a program, a scripted television program. It was as if it was my baby more than any other scripted project in which I was part,” she admitted to We. “So it was so close and it was vaguely based on my life. So, it was devastating, and I think it was also devastating in the context of being, I think I am the first trans person, a star in a comedy. I saw this somewhere. I don’t have [confirmed it] – It’s sad, but it is not unexpected in the current political environment, but it is simply sad in the relationship with this. »»

Apart from the “punch” of Clean slate Coming so early, Cox said that she appreciated viewers who really adopted the inclusive message of the SitCom.

“The fans who loved it, what I want to do is shout the fans who were incredible online. Incredible,” she said. “When I go out in the world, how many people have watched her without my inviting them. People all over the country and all over the world who watched her love it and ask a season two. I’m sorry, it’s not my fault.”

Cox said that she had not yet abandoned the hope of finding Clean slate A new streaming or television house because it planned to “shop elsewhere”.

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“This is really this connection with the public. And you can reach a person and we have touched more than one person with our show,” she added. “And so it brings me so much joy. I am emptied personally, but then I go out into the world and we made people laugh and we made people think and we had people like [say]”It’s my grandmother, it’s my aunt. Oh girl. ‘”

She continued: “People see each other in these characters and it is a dream for an artist. So, it is also a huge success to get a television show on the air. So I literally treat this with you. So it is a miracle that we have reached TV [shared] Love and that’s what it is about. The community.

As for what could be the next in his career, Cox said We The fact that the experience of doing a sitcom convinced it to carry out even more difficult projects.

“Makeing comedy was so liberating for me in other aspects of my work and in the plea, and I am just, I gave myself the permission to let go and be funny,” she said. “Making a show with George Wallace, making press with George Wallace, giving me permission to be silly and to look at this and laugh with that can exist with other things. So, I mean, honestly, at this stage as an artist, as an actress, I want to do something really.”

Cox continued: “I feel like I did not achieve my potential as an artist, so I need something really difficult to let the children know that she is an actress. And so something completely transformer. I have two films. One was announced, Animal farmthe remake of Animal farmit’s animated [and] I play Snowball, which has just been announced. We don’t know where this house will be. And I have another film called Result with Keanu ReevesAnd it comes out, probably, later this year. “”

The actress nominated at the Emmy Awards added that she hoped to “do something really different” after Clean slate – preferably a project she could produce.

“I think of something that is just completely [new]I feel like I need to play a man or something like that. I don’t know … because people know Laverne now, and so I need to disappear in something, “she teased.” The next thing I do, I want to disappear completely in it. So, yes, I can’t wait for that. I don’t know what it is yet, but I want to disappear. And so people can really regain talent and enter the job and the game. ”

Cox announced another big quarter career in January when she left E Prize awards!

“With an incredible quantity of gratitude, I decided not to come back as a host of the cover of the Red Carpet of # Livefrome,” wrote Cox via Instagram on January 2. “I am incredibly proud of the work we have done during my three -year term. I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone at @nbcuniversal, @eetertainment and @deofthiestv for your incredible support.”