Aubrey Plaza Wears a Loewe Dress With a Giant Pin at the Emmys

The White Lotus’ Aubrey Plaza stepped onto the Emmys red carpet wearing a Loewe dress from the brand’s spring-summer 2024 collection, topped with a bib and oversized pin on her chest. She completed the look with Alexandre Birman shoes and EFFY jewels.

Plaza is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, competing against her co-stars Meghann Fahy, Simona Tabasco, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Jennifer Coolidge, as well as The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki, Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn, and Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron.

Plaza spoke to Vanity Fair in June about her role as Harper in The White Lotus. Mike White, the series’ creator, wrote the part for her. “There’s something about Harper that feels like we tapped into a kind of vulnerability people wouldn’t expect from me,” she said. “There’s an element of feeling misunderstood, and I gravitate towards those kinds of characters a lot—their defenses are up and they feel out of place.”

She discussed her experience growing up compared to Harper’s, as her mother is an attorney and her dad works in wealth management. “They’re not in that billionaire world at all, but the idea of coming from nothing and, you know, working your way up—I think that’s why the character felt very personal to me,” she said. “I grew up navigating different worlds and different communities where I was like, ‘Oh, now all of a sudden we’re living in a bigger house and a more fancy neighborhood.’ But I always felt like an outsider.”

As for her deadpan persona, popularized by her breakout role as April in Parks and Recreation, Plaza said, “The deadpan thing wasn’t, like, my thing. I could do it, but it wasn’t like, ‘There goes the deadpan girl.’ I like to think that I’m such a good actor that people just thought that was literally me.”

She described the persona as a defense mechanism during interviews. “You can see all the colors of my psychological state on display in any of these interviews,” she said. “It’s a struggle for me every time. It’s a struggle to not quote-unquote ‘give people what they want,’ which is—I don’t even know what they want—and try to have fun for myself without coming off like an asshole. I think it all just stems from—I’m scared. I prefer to be a character. I mean, that’s literally what I am doing.”

You Might Also Like

• The 15 Best Organic And Clean Shampoos For Any And All Hair Types

• 100 Gifts That Are $50 Or Under (And Look Way More Expensive Than They Actually Are)