Reservation Dogs, about a group of Indigenous teens who get into some minor schemes and scrapes while dealing with lingering grief from the loss of a friend the year before.At the Emmys ceremony, in a room filled with household names like Jason Sudeikis and Kate Winslet, Jacobs and her castmates stood out in the best way.
Onstage in a stunning gown from size-inclusive Indigenous designer Lesley Hampton, Jacobs said that diverse storytelling on TV was off to “a good start, which can lead us to the day when telling stories from underserved communities will be the norm, not the exception.”“It would have changed everything for me and I would have realized who I was [sooner],” she says of the value of centering marginalized people in film and.