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Selena Gomez Says Indie Films Are 'The Historical Record of Our Times'

Selena Gomez at the IndieWire Honors ceremony thanked 'Emilia Perez' director Jacques Audiard and Harmony Korine and Jim Jarmusch.

“Supporting independent filmmakers is extremely important, not only because it’s vital to the future of storytelling, but I believe these films are truly the historical records of the times,” Gomez told the crowd. Gomez also praised Audiard’s filmmaking with “Emilia Peréz,” alluding to just how much the genre-bending Spanish-language musical, in which she plays the wife to a former drug cartel boss, defies expectations. “On the set, Selena is a living oxymoron, a daily contradiction: strong, fragile, determined, indeterminate, present, absent, sick, healthy as can be, chatty, quiet, etc.,” Audiard wrote.

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