Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken candidly about her efficiency in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind Spanish language musical, saying that making historical past with an Oscar nomination is a risk out of her management.
The actress, a trans lady, has been the recipient of essential acclaim since the movie debuted in Cannes, profitable her the finest actress prize alongside co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez in Could. Gascón masters two roles: one, a infamous cartel chief, and the different, a trans lady, Emilia Pérez, who has been receiving feminine hormone remedy for 2 years and is prepared to full the gender-affirming course of by faking her demise and leaving her lifetime of crime behind.
At the San Sebastian Movie Pageant in Gascón’s native Spain on Sunday, the 52-year-old discusses the Oscar buzz she’s been choosing up after it was reported she’ll be submitted for lead actress consideration. If nominated, she can be the first overtly trans actress to land an Academy Award nod.
Gascón spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, her phrases a translator’s rendition, on the Spanish coast about why she needs the focus positioned solely on her appearing.
“You can do whatever you want to win [the Oscar], if you’re not gonna win it, you’re not gonna win it,” she mentioned at the Lodge Maria Cristina. “I can’t do any more than present my work. If it happens, it would be wonderful for me as an actress — which is important. Sometimes, some people think they’ve given you the prize because you are from a particular community, not for your role, which annoys me.”
She continued: “I try to make sure what is happening has to do with my performance as an actress, because everything else is out of my control. I’m not trying to have false modesty here or anything like that, but I’ve done a role very few people could have done.”
“Of course, I understand the importance of my collective and the people I belong to, but the only thing that I can really do is act. I want the important to be there as well,” she added.
Gascón spoke about wanting to “applaud France” and Audiard for making a movie in Spanish submitted for Oscar consideration. She described being amazed by how the French have opened themselves up to her work and the world of Latin America.
“The French, they love their own language. They’re very much their own people,” Gascón mentioned. “That the French have been able to open themselves up and make a film like this in Spanish, these characters from Latin America, is incredible. For a French director and a French crew to do a film like this I think is an amazing thing.”
Gascón spoke solely to THR with Saldana and Gomez for Telluride about the bond they’ve created, their paths to the undertaking, and the way it’s already reshaping their careers.
Emilia Pérez screens at the San Sebastian Movie Pageant operating from Sept. 20-28. Learn THR‘s overview of the movie and the “divine” Gascón right here.
