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Karla Sofía Gascón, Fernanda Torres and More on the Success of Their International Films: ‘It Opens the Door to All Kinds of Things’
When ‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón was asked who she’d most want to meet during award season, she said James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli.
“I’ve worked in Milan, in London, in Mexico, and every time I’ve changed countries, it’s a completely different world,” says Spanish star Karla Sofía Gascón, a trans actor who plays a Mexican drug kingpin before and after her transition in the Spanish-language musical crime film “ Emilia Pérez.” “You need to start from zero each time, and that takes a lot of courage.” She’s won a best actress European Film Award and shared another in Cannes with her U.S.-born co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez and Mexican-born Adriana Paz — and the actors have picked up more nominations since then. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s efforts to expand its international membership and diversify across the board — more than doubling the number of women and members of color — have arguably made Oscar voters more open to a wider range of talent. Her “Borat” nomination also gave her the clout and connections to launch a production company, Five Oceans, which she used to produce and star in Bulgaria’s official Oscar selection for international feature, “Triumph.” The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
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