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‘Emilia Pérez’ Star Karla Sofía Gascón Jokes That She Had to Get Out of Character ‘Through Exorcism’: ‘I Didn’t Know Who I Was’
Karla Sofía Gascón, who stars as a gangster transitioning in Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Perez,' talks about her breakthrough performance in the film.
Karla Sofía Gascón, who delivered a breakthrough performance as a ruthless narco gangster transitioning in Jacques Audiard’s crime musical “Emilia Pérez,” has revealed how she fought to get the part. While Audiard has worked in languages other than French before, such as “Dheepan” (which won the Palme d’Or) and “The Sisters’ Brothers” (with Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin Phoenix), “ Emilia Perez ” marked his Spanish-language debut. “Born under a dictatorship in 1972,” and growing up in the Madrid suburb of Alcobendas (where Penelope Cruz also comes from), Gascón said she “didn’t have any point of reference for starting an acting career” but she always had a desire to “multiply her ways of being and experiences of life.”
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