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Selena Gomez on Her Cannes Win for Best Actress, ‘Only Murders’ and Potentially Becoming Most Emmy-Nominated Latina Producer
Awards Circuit Podcast: Also on this episode, 'The Sympathizer' star Hoa Xuande and the Roundtable tackles the key Emmy series categories.
Proudly identifying as a third-generation American-Mexican (her father is Mexican and her paternal grandparents were born in Monterrey), Gomez’s inclusion is fresh air for Latin representation in Hollywood. As for Audiard’s Spanish-language movie, which Netflix acquired, Gomez plays Jessi, alongside Zoe Saldaña (as Rita) and Karla Sofía Gascón as the title character in “Emilia Pérez.” The film, about three women who become forever bonded by their traumatic experiences in Mexico City’s cartel-run underbelly, earned a passionate nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes. Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, hosted by Clayton Davis, Jenelle Riley, Jazz Tangcay, Emily Longeretta and Michael Schneider, who also produces, is your one-stop source for lively conversations about the best in film and television.
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