DEVERY JACOBS.
Canadian actress Devery Jacobs is currently starring alongside Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane in Amazon Prime’s lauded fantasy drama, American Gods, as fan-favourite character Sam Black Crow. Sam is two-spirit and Indigenous, and it’s a role she hugely identifies with - and can play authentically - because she is a queer Native American and hails from the Mohawk Nation. “I never thought I would be able to have these different parts of myself and see my two communities come together within a role,” she tells us, before explaining the importance of authentic representation: “Anybody can play an idea of what they think a queer person might be like, they can create an idea of an Indigenous person’s experience, but unless they’ve been through it firsthand, they’ll lack that authenticity and truth.”
Although Devery has received acclaim in the past
