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CANNES FESTIVAL – She couldn’t hold back her tears during her speech. Karla Sofía Gascón, a Spanish actress who made a gender transition at 46, was rewarded, alongside the Americans Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez as well as the Mexican Adriana Paz, with an ensemble prize for female performance for Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
As you can hear in our video at the top of the articlethe 52-year-old actress who plays the title role, a ruthless Mexican drug lord in Emilia Perez dedicated his speech to “all the trans people who suffer so much. » “I want these people to believe that it is always possible to improve”she thanked, alone at the microphone, on the stage of the Palais des Festivals.
“I’m not going to lie to you, for me, working as Manitas was a lot more fun than working as Emilia Perez. Playing a Mexican drug trafficker, with a voice different from mine, and singing… It seemed like a wonderful job.”, she declared to the press in the preceding days in Cannes. Because, yes, we must add to this crazy story the scenes from musicals, so much so that some critics have spoken of “narcomusical”.
Like her character, she is a woman who always loves women. Karla Sofia Gascon is married and has a daughter. “ They came to Cannes. At the gala, they cried like madeleines”. “My daughter is 13 years old. It has been a very difficult, very complicated path. Especially for my wife. I met her when she was 18, in a nightclub in Alcobendas (Madrid metropolitan area), imagine. But it’s wonderful what’s happening.”she confided again.
The actress began acting in the 1990s in popular series in Spain such as Isabel And It’s great. Then she emigrated to Mexico, where the action ofEmilia Perez, which was ultimately filmed mainly in the Paris region. Comes next Nosotros los nobles (2013), one of the biggest cinema successes in Mexico. It is the financial comfort acquired thanks to this film which will decide her to begin her complete transition.
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