Jacques Audiard’s film, “Emilia Pérez” caused a sensation on the Croisette. He received an ensemble award for female performances, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña. The Spanish transgender actress gave an emotional speech.
The 52-year-old actress Karla Sofía Gascón plays Emilia Pérez in the film of the same name, acclaimed during the closing ceremony. The three actresses received an ensemble award for their female performances.
In tears, Karla Sofía Gascón on behalf of herself and on behalf of Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña thanked Jacques Audiard.the best director in the world” she shouted.
This award isn’t for me, it’s for everyone who worked together to make this film. Without all of you, I would be nothing.
Karla Sofia GascónDuring the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.
The emotion overwhelmed the actress who ended up thanking her family, her brother, his wife, his daughter, and then all the actors and actresses who knock on doors every day. Finally, she wanted to pay tribute to people in the trans community.
To all trans people who have suffered so much, I want these people to finally come to believe that it is possible to change for the better, so all of you who have made us suffer so much, it is also time to change.
Karla Sofia GascónDuring the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis of the film: Overqualified and overexploited, Rita uses her talents as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more inclined to launder criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected exit door opens to her, helping the cartel leader Manitas to get out of business and carry out the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he always dreamed of being. ...
Karla Sofía Gascón played Emilia before her transition and afterward, she reportedly insisted to Audiard to play her roles.
Emilia Peréz also received the Jury Prize, the French director, Jacques Audiard, he began his speech with a joke: “I’m not Jacques Audiard, he got stuck in a taxi“, after saying that Karla Sofía Gascón had already said everything, he ended up expressing his gratitude to his actresses: “I thank all my actresses, they were my reason for shooting every day“.
In real life, she is transgender herself. Born in Madrid in 1972, under the name Carlos Gascón. She announced her gender transition in 2018. Her parents are Andalusian, she became known thanks to small screen series.
She plays her first important role with the character of Arturo in El Aguila de Fuego, an adaptation of the Spanish musical.
In 2013, Nosotros los Nobles of Warner Bros. becomes a success in Mexican cinema, breaking the admissions record.
On Instagram, she expresses her pride in being a trans woman at the Cannes Film Festival and being able to make transidentity visible in the cinema (“so little present”)
