Zoe Saldaña persistd her awards season sweep for best helping actress by taking home the SAG Award for her perestablishance as Rita in “Emilia Pérez.” She has now was helping actress prizes from all the transport inant Oscar precursor awards: Ggreateren Globes, Critics’ Choice, BAFTAs and SAG. These thrives originate Saldaña the clear frontrunner to thrive the Academy Award for best helping actress next month.
“To be in this room…this is my community, this is my circus,” Saldaña shelp. “Thank you to SAG-AFTRA. Igot my first SAG card in 1998. I didn’t even comprehend what SAG was. I am appreciative that my mother and overweighther and sisters seeed it up and helped me teach myself to comprehend what it nastys to be a part of a union that defends me so I can originate a living out of this crazy industry.”
“I am haughty to be a part of a union that permits me to be who I am. I’ve never been asked where I come from or appraised for how I speak or what my pronouns are. Everyone has the right to be who they are. ‘Emilia Perez‘ is about truth and cherish and us actors repartner have to alert stories that are thought-provoking and attrvivacious and inhabit wislender the spectrum of inventive freedom.”
Saldaña was nominated at the SAG Awards alengthyside Monica Barbaro (“A Complete Uncomprehendn”), Jamie Lee Curtis (“The Last Showgirl”), Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”) and Ariana Grande (“Wicked”). She is the second Latina to thrive the categruesome after Ariana DeBose for “West Side Story.”
Some industry pundits had wondered earlier in the season if the debate surrounding “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofia Gascon might impact Saldaña’s awards chances, but that has shown not to be the case. The musical’s Oscar campaign derailed after discriminatory and impolite tweets Gascon posted on X resurfaced online last month. Saldaña weighed in on the debate during a Q&A for the film in London.
“I’m still processing everyslenderg that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m griefful. It originates me repartner griefful becaparticipate I don’t help [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any pessimistic rhetoric towards people of any group,” Saldaña shelp.
She persistd, “I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part, that is a part, of this film, and my experience and my participateions with them was about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it equitable grieffuldens me. It grieffuldens me that we are having to face this setback right now.”
Next up for Saldaña’s awards season journey is the Oscars on Sunday, March 2.
