Actress Laurie Metcalf, who played the liberal Aunt Jackie on the Roseanne Show, was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a comedy on Thursday afternoon.
Congratulations to Laurie Metcalf on her Emmy nomination this morning for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series & also to Brian Schnuckel for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series— both for #Roseanne! The 70th #Emmy Awards airs September 17th! pic.twitter.com/7XRb2PVPI9
— All Things Roseanne (@RoseanneReturns) July 12, 2018
Metcalf in the show portrays a liberal who no longer gets along with her sister, Roseanne, and her family over their support of President Trump. In the first episode of the reboot, Aunt Jacky is introduced wearing a pink shirt that says “Nasty woman” and wearing pink ears that many women wore back around the time Trump was inaugurated.
Laurie Metcalf was nominated for an Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in the Roseanne reboot pic.twitter.com/ARBlx7TPS9
— Krystie Lee Yandoli (@KrystieLYandoli) July 12, 2018
She will compete against Zazie Beetz of “Atlanta”, Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, Aidy Bryant of “Saturday Night Live”, Betty Gilpin of “GLOW”, Leslie Jones of “Saturday Night Live”, Kate McKinnon of “Saturday Night Live” and Megan Mullally of “Will and Grace” for the award.
The Roseanne reboot was canceled by ABC after the show’s main character Roseanne Barr sent out racially inflammatory tweets. (RELATED: ABC Cancels ‘Roseanne’)
ABC has announced a new spinoff called “The Connors,” which will feature much of the cast of the original reboot.