Sandra Oh makes history as the first nominee of the best Emmy Asian actress

Sandra Oh went into history on Thursday, becoming the first Asian actress to receive an Emmy nomination in the category of Best Actresses.

The 46-year-old star, head of the BBC America Killing Eve had already been nominated for five supporting actress Emmys for her breakthrough role as Dr. Cristina Yang in ABC Gray & # 39; s Anatomy, which she played the role of 2005-14.

She previously opened on how she was shocked to have got the lead role in Killing Eve explaining that she was used to being offered only characters secondary.

"When I had the script of Killing Eve I remember I was walking in Brooklyn and I was on the phone with my agent, Nancy." I quickly scrolls through the script, and I can not really tell you what I was looking for, so I thought, "So Nancy, I do not understand, what's the role?" "Oh, I called him back to Vulture in April. "And Nancy goes" Honey, it's Eve, it's Eve. ""

Sandra Oh

Dominik Magdziak Photography / Getty

His surprise was the result of a larger problem: the racism that she claimed I had lived for so long in Hollywood that she left him "brainwashed."

"At that time, I did not badume that the offer was for Eve, "she said." I think a lot about that moment. To go, how deep did I internalize that? [So] many years to be seen [a certain way] deeply, deeply, deeply affects us. It's like, how does racism define your work? Oh my God, I did not even suppose when I was offered something that I would be one of the central storytellers. Why? And that's me talking, is not it? "

" Racism exists. Let's start there. I felt it, and I felt it deeply. And I am extremely lucky. I will not say that it is not there, because it is, "she added. "After being told to see things in a certain way for decades, you realize," Oh my god, they've washed my brain! "I washed the brain! It was a revelation for me. "

Ssandra Oh in Gray's Anatomy

Randy Holmes / ABC via Getty

Although she has experienced the effects of telling it, she believes in the power of a positive perspective for minority artists.

"Change the state of mind of being a player in color, a person of color, that is to disadvantage the creative life .. that you do not have any opportunity.This is how you see the opportunity.And more you get into what you really want, plus you become a better artist.If that's what you really want – become a better artist – does that include access? Instagram subscribers I do not know She said to Vulture

She continued: "But if what you want is to connect, if you want to be a great artist, I think that you can z find your way. Even in this giant paradigm, it often happens that people do not look like us.

Oh Will Face Elizabeth Moss ( The Tale of the Maid ), Claire Foy ( Crown ), Keri Russell ( The Americans ), Evan Rachel Wood ( Westworld ) and Tatiana Maslany ( Orphan Black ) come the night of the Emmys. [19659002] The 70th Annual Emmys will be broadcast live from Hollywood on September 17 (at 8 pm ET) on NBC.