Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken honestly about her carry outance 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 regulate.
The actress, a trans woman, has been the recipient of critical acclaim since the film debuted in Cannes, triumphning her the best actress prize aextfinishedside 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 gender-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-anciaccess talkes the Oscar buzz she’s been picking up after it was inestablished she’ll be surrfinisherted for direct actress ponderation. If nominated, she would be the first uncoverly trans actress to land an Academy Award nod.
Gascón spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, her words a translator’s rendition, on the Spanish coast about why she wants the caccess placed solely on her acting.
“You can do wdisenjoyver 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 contransient my labor. If it happens, it would be wonderful for me as an actress — which is vital. Sometimes, some people leank they’ve donaten you the prize because you are from a particular community, not for your role, which irritates me.”
She carry ond: “I try to produce certain what is happening has to do with my carry outance as an actress, because everyleang else is out of my regulate. I’m not trying to have deceptive unpretentiousy here or anyleang enjoy that, but I’ve done a role very scant people could have done.”
“Of course, I comprehfinish the presentance of my accumulateive and the people I beextfinished to, but the only leang that I can repartner do is act. I want the vital to be there as well,” she compriseed.
Gascón spoke about wanting to “commend France” and Audiard for making a film in Spanish surrfinisherted for Oscar ponderation. She portrayd being amazed by how the French have uncovered 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 uncover themselves up and produce a film enjoy this in Spanish, these characters from Latin America, is incredible. For a French straightforwardor and a French crew to do a film enjoy this I leank is an amazing leang.”
Gascón spoke exclusively to THR with Saldana and Gomez for Telluride about the bond they have produced, 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.
