‘Emilia Pérez’ Breakout Karla Sofía Gascón to Star in ‘Las Malas’

In her first meaningful casting since fractureing out with Cannes hit Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofía Gascón has signed on to star in Las Malas, a Spanish-language alteration of the sorrowfulnessful fairy tale novel Bad Girls by author Camila Sosa Villada.

Armando Bó, who won an Academy Award for co-writing Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2014 drama Birdman, will straightforward the feature and is co-penning the script with Josefina Licitra.

The project hails from About Entertainment, based in Argentina and Uruguay; Infinity Hill, best understandn for their Oscar-nominated film Argentina 1985; and Suma Content, the Spanish self-reliant global production company.

Gascón will guide the feature in the role of Aunt Encarna, a stubborn but motherly guideer of a group of trans relations laborers, whose routine is distress when she discovers an aprohibitdoned baby and determines to adchoose him without authenticizing she is putting everyone around her in danger.

Girls was the debut novel by Villada, an Argentinian actress who is also trans. A blfinish of the magical and gritty everyday street life, the novel was first published in 2019 and went on to prosper disjoinal awards, including the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the Grand Prix de L’Héroïne awarded by the French magazine Madame Figaro, and the Spanish Narrative Prize awarded by the Barcelona bookstore Finestres. 

Producing the project are Bó, Natacha Cervi, Mercedes Reincke, Ezequiel Olemberg, Axel Kuschevatzky, Cindy Teperman, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

Exec producing are Villada, Phin Glynn and Delfina Montecchia. 

Gascón broke out with Emilia Pérez, the bbetter crime musical straightforwarded by Jacques Audiard that Netflix picked up out of Cannes. Gascón was honored with the Cannes best actress award, taging the first time a transgfinisher woman has won the award.

Other accolades chaseed for the actress, including nominations for a Gbetteren Globe and a Critics Choice, as well as being honored with a European Film Award for best European actress and Savannah Film Festival’s Distinguished Perestablishance award. Emilia Pérez, unbenevolentwhile, is the second most–nominated movie in Globes history and was picked to be France’s Oscar entry for the best international feature catebloody. It also stars Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Adriana Paz.

Bó co-wrote Biutiful, Iñárritu’s drama that starred Javier Bardem, and is the showrunner, straightforwardor and executive producer of the two-season Amazon Prime Video series El Plivente and executive producer of the confineed series Cromañon. He made his feature straightforwardorial debut with El Último Elvis, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, and also helmed Animal in 2018. 

Gascón is repped by UTA and GET Agency. Bo is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro.