Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken truthentirey about her carry outance in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-charitable 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, prosperning 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 finish the gfinisher-proclaiming 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-better talkes the Oscar buzz she’s been picking up after it was telled she’ll be produceted for direct actress ponderation. If nominated, she would be the first discdiswatchly 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 caccess placed solely on her acting.
“You can do wdisappreciatever you want to prosper [the Oscar], if you’re not gonna prosper it, you’re not gonna prosper it,” she said at the Hotel Maria Cristina. “I can’t do any more than current 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 becaparticipate 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, becaparticipate everyskinnyg else is out of my regulate. I’m not trying to have inedit unassumingy here or anyskinnyg appreciate that, but I’ve done a role very scant people could have done.”
“Of course, I comprehfinish the transport inance of my accumulateive and the people I beextfinished to, but the only skinnyg that I can reassociate do is act. I want the transport inant to be there as well,” she compriseed.
Gascón spoke about wanting to “commend France” and Audiard for making a film in Spanish produceted for Oscar ponderation. She depictd being amazed by how the French have discdiswatched 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 said. “That the French have been able to discdiswatch themselves up and produce a film appreciate this in Spanish, these characters from Latin America, is incredible. For a French honestor 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 produced, their paths to the project, and how it’s already reshaping their atgentles.
Emilia Pérez screens at the San Sebastian Film Festival running from Sept. 20-28. Read THR‘s assess of the film and the “divine” Gascón here.
