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International Breakouts of the Year: ‘Anora’ and ‘Emilia Perez’ Stars, ‘The Substance’ Director and More Had a Career-Changing 2024


The writer/director of 'The Substance,' Russian stars of 'Anora,' creator of 'Baby Reindeer' and more all had a career-changing year

Delpero’s drama was praised as “quietly breathtaking” by Variety critic Jessica Kiang, who noted that the film “unfolds from tiny tactile details of furnishings and fabrics and the hide of a dairy cow, into a momentous vision of everyday rural existence in the high Italian Alps.” Fearless Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón showed the extent of her range in “Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard’s crime musical in which she plays two part, starting with Manitas del Monte, a notorious cartel leader who fakes her own death to live authentically as a trans woman. First, in January, he’ll take the lead in Apple TV+’s “Prime Target” as a maths genius who finds himself embroiled in a global conspiracy before following it up the next month as Renée Zellweger’s new love interest in the highly-anticipated fourth instalment of “Bridget Jones” franchise, “Mad About the Boy.” His rising success comes on the heels of scene-stealing roles in “The White Lotus” (2022) and “Citadel” (2023).

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