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People Are Furious Over Zoe Saldaña’s Response To A Mexican Journalist Telling Her That They Were Hurt By “Emilia Pérez’s” Portrayal Of Their Country
“for a non mexican woman to get up here and tell an actual mexican citizen that they dont agree with how mexico feels about this film is a pretty disrespectful and disgusting response.”
🔥 Full coverage and conversation on the Oscars Notably, the film's director, Jacques Audiard, admitted amid the press tour that he didn't do much research on Mexico before shooting Emilia Pérez. “’ThE hEaRt WaSn’T a CoUnRtY’ okayyy so you just admitted you were profiting off a culture which NO ONE IM THE FILM knows anything about,” someone else wrote, while one more user echoed: “‘Mexico was not the heart of the film’ yet they chose the topic to be the gangs, kidnapping and violence against women issues happening in mexico, and chose to mimic mexican culture, and chose to set the film in MEXICO without any main crew member or set being from mexico ??
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