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

Laverne Cox Compared the cancellation of his Amazon Prime Videos series Clean slate Dagger to [her] Heart. “

“I’m still processing [the cancellation]”, Cox, 52, said exclusive Us Weekly At the inauguration of the Tryst Puerto Vallarta on Friday, April 25. “We discovered that a week of the week we announced it and cried like a baby.”

Clean slate – What Cox created and produced with costing George Wallace and Then Ewen -He said Desiree (COX) of about 40 years returning to his small hometown of Alabama to be a trans woman of her father (Wallace) after a 23 -year departure. Cox confirmed in early April that Prime Video did not advance with a second season.

“Or for the course, I am canceled before, but I have never been born a program, a television program with script. It has been my baby more than any project with a script that has been part,” he confessed User. “Then, I was so close and was based freely on my life. Then, it was devastating, and I think it was also devastating in the context of being, I think that supposedly, I am the first trans person, a star in a comedy. Somewhere. [confirmed it] – It is sad, but it is not unexpected in the current political environment, but it is sad in relation to that. “

Apart from the “intestine” or Clean slate Finishing so soon, Cox said he appreciated the spectators who really hugged the inclusive message of the comedy.

“The fans who loved them, what I want to do is shout fans who have an incredible leg online. Incredible,” he said. “When I go to the world, how many people have seen him without promising. People throughout the country and around the world who have seen him and ask for a season two. I’m sorry, it’s not my fault.”

Cox said that he has not yet given the hope of finding Clean slate A new transmission or television house, since it planned to “buy it elsewhere.”

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“It really is that connection with the audience. And you can touch a person and we touch more than one person with our program,” he added. “And that brings me so much joy. I am personally destroyed, but then I go out to the world and we have made people laugh and we have made people think and have had people like [say]’That is my grandmother, that’s my aunt. Oh girl. “

She continued: “People are seeing themselves in these characters and this is a dream for an artist. Therefore, it is a great achievement to obtain a television program in the air, so. Then, literally, I am processing this with you. So, it is a so that I have done what we have made that we have made gaat that we have made gaat that we have made that we have made gaat that we have made that we have made that we have done what we have made that we have made what we have made that we Gaat made we have made that we have made Gaat that we have made that we have made Gaat that we have made that we have made Gaat made that we have made that we have made Gaat that we have made that we have made Gaat made that we have made that we have made Gaat made that we have made that we have made Gaat that we have made that we have made us make Gaat that we have made that we have made Gaat. That we have made Gaat, we have the fingers of the door that we have made that we have made Gaat, we have that we have a gate tobat that we have to have to teasing the door we have done. [shared] Love and that’s really about. The community. “

As for what could be next in his career, Cox said User That the experience of making a comedy has convinced her to assume even more challenging projects.

“Making comedy was so liberating for me in other aspects of my work and in defense, and I am only, I have given myself permission to let it go and be fun,” he said. “Making a show with George Wallace, a press with George Wallace, giving me permission to be nonsense and support me and laughter along with that can exist with other things. So, I want, honestly, at this stage as an artist, as an actress, I want to do something that really challenges me.”

Cox continued: “I feel that I did not realize my potential as an artist, so I need something really challenge for children to know that she is an actress. And something completely transformative. I have two films. One was announced, it was announced, Animal farmThe remake of Animal farmThat is animated [and] Snowball game, which has just been announced. We don’t know where that house will be. And I have another movie called Result with Keanu ReevesAnd that will probably come out at the end of this year. “

Acresa nominated for the Emmy award added that she expected “to do something really different” after Clean slate – Preferential a project that she could produce.

“I am thinking of something that is completely [new]I feel that I need to play a man or something. I don’t know … because people meet Laverne now, so I need to disappear in something, “he joked.” The next thing I do, I want to complete to disappear in it. So, yes, I’m looking forward to that. I still don’t know what it is, but I want to disappear. And so, people really can return to talent and enter the trade and acting. “

Cox announced another big career change in January when he left e! The prize shows the coverage of the red carpet after three years of interviewing the largest stars in Hollywood.

“With an incredible amount of gratitude, they decide not to return as host or coverage of red carpet of #LiveFrome,” Cox written through Instagram on January 2. @Nbcuniversal, @eentainment and @denofthievestv for their incredible support. “