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Selena Gomez Cries Amid 9-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes Film Festival


Selena Gomez was overwhelmed with emotion after receiving such a long standing ovation for her movie 'Emilia Perez' at Cannes Film Festival

The actress, 31, who stars in Emilia Pérez, was seen wiping tears as the audience at France’s Grand Lumiére Theatre at the Palais gave their longest round of applause so far this year, Variety reports. Gomez plays Jessi, a drug lord’s wife and mother of two, in the musical crime drama, and she sings a handful of songs for the Emilia Pérez soundtrack and speaks Spanish in the film, per The Hollywood Reporter. One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas 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.”

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