Emma Corrin hopes major award shows will introduce gender-neutral categories

Emma Corrin hopes of awards such as Oscars and BAFTA Awards introduce gender-neutral categories.

The 26-year-old Crown star insisted in a new interview that the awards in their current form are not “inclusive enough” and said the change they hope will allow everyone to feel “recognised and represented”.

Emma – who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns – said better representation is needed within roles in the entertainment industry to drive ‘urgency’ in addressing the subject.

Emma has won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role as Princess Diana in the fourth series of the Netflix hit and this year he stars in two high-profile films, My Policeman and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

In a conversation with The BBC’s Today Programme on the possibility of gender-neutral categories at major awards shows, Emma said: ‘I hope for a future where that happens.

“I don’t think the categories are inclusive enough at the moment. It’s about everyone feeling recognized and represented.”

Why? The Crown star insisted the awards were not “inclusive enough” in their current form and said the change would allow everyone to feel “recognised and represented”.

Emma added that more representation was needed within roles in the entertainment industry to drive “greater urgency” in addressing the topic.

The Crown star asked: ‘When it comes to the categories, do we have to specify whether you’re nominated for a female role or a male role?’

“You can have a discussion there about awards and representation, but really the conversation has to be about more representation in the material itself, in the content that we see for non-binary people, for queer people, for trans people, because then I think that’s going to be a lot changed.

“Once these parts come out, which means more people and more actors playing these roles, I think these issues will be addressed more urgently.”

Emma publicly identifies as non-binary as of 2021and has shared his journey with his gender identity publicly on social media.

The thespian said Today’s program: ‘Your gender identity has a lot to do with how you feel and it has to do with how you want to be seen or how people see you, and that can be very upsetting or it can make you uncomfortable if you don’t feel they see fairly or correctly.

”I think I had to be open and honest about it, because otherwise I would have felt like I was being misconstrued.”

They’re not worried: The film star added that they weren’t worried that being open about their gender identity would limit the range of roles they’d be offered in the future.

The movie star added that they weren’t worried that being open about their gender identity would limit the range of roles they would be offered in the future.

Emma explained: ‘I would never sacrifice integrity or honesty for a job that I may or may not get,’ they said.

“Being non-binary is not a rejection of femininity or my femininity in any way. It’s kind of an embrace of it.

‘I still want to play women, my experience in this world has been a woman – and now it’s kind of very fluid.’

Emma is currently preparing to star in an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, which explores gender identity.

The full interview with Emma Corrin will be on the Today Program on Friday 25 November.

Royal role: In 2021, Emma won Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 2021 Golden Globes