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‘Emilia Pérez’ Star Karla Sofía Gascón On How Movie Champions Trans Rights: “We’re Just Normal People” – Cannes
Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon Discuss 'Emila Perez' at Cannes
Jacques Audiard’s Emila Perez follows Rita (Saldaña), an overqualified and undervalued lawyer, who goes from repping guilty criminals to a cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) who hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being. Audiard became drawn to doing a movie about Mexico ,because of “all these problems — missing people there are whole regions you can’t go because it’s not safe, there is the crumbling of democracy.” Audiard explained how he became inspired for the idea of the Mexican drug lord musical from a chapter in a novel about a trafficker who yearns to change his identity.
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