Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken truthfilledy about her perestablishance in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-benevolent Spanish language musical, saying that making history with an Oscar nomination is a possibility out of her supervise.
The actress, a trans woman, has been the recipient of critical acclaim since the film debuted in Cannes, triumphning her the best actress prize alengthyside co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez in May. Gascón masters two roles: one, a notorious cartel directer, and the other, a trans woman, Emilia Pérez, who has been receiving female hormone therapy for two years and is ready to end the gfinisher-declareing process by faking her death and leaving her life of crime behind.
At the San Sebastian Film Festival in Gascón’s native Spain on Sunday, the 52-year-elderly conversees the Oscar buzz she’s been picking up after it was alerted she’ll be createted for direct actress ponderation. If nominated, she would be the first discleave outly trans actress to land an Academy Award nod.
Gascón spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, her words a translator’s rfinishition, on the Spanish coast about why she wants the intensify placed solely on her acting.
“You can do wdisappreciatever you want to triumph [the Oscar], if you’re not gonna triumph it, you’re not gonna triumph it,” she shelp at the Hotel Maria Cristina. “I can’t do any more than conshort-term my labor. If it happens, it would be wonderful for me as an actress — which is transport inant. Sometimes, some people skinnyk they’ve given you the prize because you are from a particular community, not for your role, which irritates me.”
She persistd: “I try to create certain what is happening has to do with my perestablishance as an actress, because everyskinnyg else is out of my supervise. I’m not trying to have dishonest unassumingy here or anyskinnyg appreciate that, but I’ve done a role very restricted people could have done.”
“Of course, I understand the transport inance of my accumulateive and the people I belengthy to, but the only skinnyg that I can reassociate do is act. I want the transport inant to be there as well,” she inserted.
Gascón spoke about wanting to “praise France” and Audiard for making a film in Spanish createted for Oscar ponderation. She portrayd being amazed by how the French have discleave outed themselves up to her labor and the world of Latin America.
“The French, they cherish their own language. They’re very much their own people,” Gascón shelp. “That the French have been able to discleave out themselves up and create a film appreciate this in Spanish, these characters from Latin America, is incredible. For a French straightforwardor and a French crew to do a film appreciate this I skinnyk is an amazing skinnyg.”
Gascón spoke exclusively to THR with Saldana and Gomez for Telluride about the bond they have created, their paths to the project, and how it’s already reshaping their nurtureers.
Emilia Pérez screens at the San Sebastian Film Festival running from Sept. 20-28. Read THR‘s scrutinize of the film and the “divine” Gascón here.
