Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Teases She’s ‘Coming In Hot’ With New Music, ‘Loot’ Season 2, & More in 2023 (Exclusive)

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez surely has a batch going connected successful her beingness aft taking location a Golden Globe, but thing is much important than supporting her assemblage for National Transgender Awareness Week. The talented histrion partnered with Citi on their Chosen Name initiative, which allows customers to update banking cards with their chosen archetypal sanction without requiring a ineligible sanction change, a diagnostic particularly adjuvant to transgender and non-binary people. “They tin spell retired successful the satellite and usage the individuality that is typical of them,” Michaela EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife connected Nov. 16.

Michaela Jae Rodriguez partnered with Citi for their Chosen Name inaugural during Transgender Awareness Week. (MJR)

“It shows camaraderie successful truthful galore ways; it shows that determination is evidently a queer abstraction implicit astatine Citi that’s educating; it besides shows that determination are radical extracurricular LGBTQ+ assemblage that are capable to recognize and perceive and marque change,” the prima added. “And it’s happening with these Citi cards. Now anyone who’s trans tin alteration their sanction astatine the driblet of a dime. It doesn’t necessitate a long-haul process that could beryllium embarrassing. Instead, it tin beryllium thing arsenic speedy arsenic possible.”

Having made past successful 2022 arsenic the archetypal trans idiosyncratic to triumph a pb acting Golden Globe for portraying Bianca Evangelist successful Pose, Michaela knows a small thing astir the caller displacement successful Hollywood regarding transgender awareness. “What has changed is the entree that we person arsenic women successful the abstraction and the powerfulness present that we have,” she told HollywoodLife. “A very, very, precise tiny percentage, but we are inactive a portion of influential spaces and we make a batch of influence, which I’m precise blessed about. I’m besides blessed astir america being worthy thing now. Our enactment arsenic quality beings has risen and I deliberation it conscionable needs to perpetually support rising.”

Michaela Jae Rodriguez plays Sofia successful the Apple TV+ dramedy ‘Loot.’ (AppleTV)

Michaela besides teased to HollywoodLife what fans tin expect successful Season 2 of her hilarious Apple TV + amusement “Loot,” wherever she plays Sofia, the determined manager of a foundation owned by uber-wealthy divorcee Molly, played by Maya Rudolph. “Well, there’s truthful galore much stories we are going to see,” she began. “Obviously, much scenes with Molly and Sofia, their chemistry is retired of this world. Within Sofia’s world, we’re decidedly going to spot immoderate changes, much emotions from her, things happening successful her beingness that she ne'er expected. And I deliberation that’s what radical want, to cognize much astir her.”

And arsenic for what’s coming up adjacent connected her creation card, Michaela is keeping her eyes connected the prize: EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status. “You know, determination is an EGOT victor present wrong me. I anticipation that I’ll scope the masses enough, truthful we tin get there. I person euphony coming retired and much down the line. It’s coming retired adjacent twelvemonth and I’m coming successful hot!”

Check retired the Citi website for much info connected their astonishing Chosen Name inaugural and tune successful to Apple TV + to drawback up connected the unthinkable Loot episodes earlier the adjacent play gets here!