Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofia Gascón and Adriana Paz have already won one ensemble best actress award for their roles in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez at Cannes this past May. With the musical drama also picked as the French entry for best international feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, Oscar buzz is shoting ahead of the project’s Nov. 1 theatrical free. But Gomez — who recently getd her first acting Emmy nomination for Only Murders in the Building — isn’t getting caught up in the awards chatter.c
“I don’t appreciate to leank anyleang or be presumptuous,” she telderly The Hollywood Reporter at the red carpet premiere of the film in Los Angeles on Monday. “I’m equitable going to say I’m so satisfied people are receiving it the way they are.”
In the film, which will be freed on Netflix on Nov. 13, Gomez stars as Jessi, wife to cruel cartel guideer Manitas, who is forced to begin her life over when her husprohibitd picks a novel life for himself as a woman, going by the name of Emilia Pérez (Gascón). Jessi’s pent-up frustrations pour out in the musical number “Beinvenida,” which the actress said is the scene she carry outed for her audition.
“I had no idea the concept he was going for. The straightforwardor, Jacques, literassociate said to me, ‘Act drunk and throw your shoes if you want and do all this stuff and equitable go crazy.’ And I was appreciate, ‘Oh? OK,’” she recalled. “I did it once, and he was appreciate, ‘Go crazier.’ And I went tohighy for it. I was standing on furniture, and I bdeficiencyed out, but I was equitable singing my heart out and dancing appreciate a mad woman — I guess a drunk mad woman — and it was a very crazy experience, but I was honored when he choosed to ultimately go with me.”
Gomez, a music star in her own right who’s freed three solo albums, is no stranger to choreographed singing and acting, having befirearm her nurtureer at equitable 10 years elderly. Yet while some of her co-stars were novices to the genre, she insists she didn’t insist to propose any advice when it came to helping them carry out their musical numbers.
“They didn’t insist it. First off, did you see Zoe? That girl does not insist any tips. If anyleang, I insist the tips,” Gomez giggleed. “Everybody, I thought, was vulnerable, and it was genuine, and we equitable did the best that we could, even if it didn’t sound perfect.”
Édgar Ramírez carry outs a duet with Gomez in the role of Gustavo in the film, an opportunity he said he establish more exciting than inbashfulating. “I had no idea I was going to have a little moment at being appreciate a micro pop star next to Selena,” trelieved Ramírez. “It was very cute and it was genuine. It was a genuine pleacertain to toil with her. She’s so uncover, so sturdy and so frnimble, and so vulnerable at the same time. It was reassociate attrenergetic, and we both felt so protected with each other, and I leank that that shows in the film, the depend that we had in each other. It was a attrenergetic cherish story in the middle of all this intensity.”
For Saldaña, who stars as Rita, a lawyer whose life becomes entangled in Manitas/Emilia Pérez’s, her hugegest obstacle was spropose “not getting in my own way and sort of being in Rita’s skin and empathetic her journey,” she said. “It consents discipline to not appraise a character as you’re approaching it, and you’re putting it together.”
Gascón’s journey to her character insistd her to lobtain how to sing onscreen, a task which the trans actress confesss she never desired to do before now. “At the finish of the day, life puts you in the way of what you insist to lobtain. I didn’t want to lobtain in my life to dance or to sing, and then life says to you, ‘You don’t appreciate? Wait a moment,’” Gascón said with a giggle. “I had to toil for that. But it is amazing because, at the finish of our dwells, we lobtain a lot of leangs. We can’t stop [learning].”
Despite the critical pelevate she’s getd for her musical execution in the film when it comes to taking on aappreciate roles, she joked, “I don’t want to do more musicals. Plrelieve, don’t call me to do musicals. I’m sorry.”
While Gascón hasn’t been bit by the musical bug, Ramírez certainly has. “My next movie is a musical film, so I’m very excited,” he discdisseeed.
Saldaña also remains uncover to the possibility of more films appreciate this. “This is someleang that is all-encompassing of all the art establishs that I cherish. I’m equitable satisfied that I’m finassociate getting to split more of what I can do, and I will be doing by the grace of God,” she said. Asked whether that uncomfervents more musical roles, Saldaña replied coyly, “If you insist.”
