“It takes people taking a risk on me,” Selena Gomez says of the secret behind Emilia Perez’s success. In conversation, she and her co-stars reflect on taking the biggest leaps of faith of their careers—and making a perfect landing.
Emilia Perez finds Audiard exploring familiar themes of male violence—its shape, its psychology, its ramifications—in an utterly new milieu. It begins with Rita , a high-powered defense attorney in Mexico City who keeps finding herself on the wrong side of justice. She’s contacted by Manitas, a notorious cartel boss, who makes her an offer she can’t refuse: Accept a fortune and live the life she’s always wanted, in exchange for the underground facilitation of gender-reassignment surgery.
“A lot of our numbers specifically were very personalized to our characters, so it was very interesting to see how everyone would kind of mold into it,” Gomez says. They improvised with one another and honed their characters’ sticky dynamics, Gascón explains: “That was really incredible—to be able to follow the rehearsals all the way through and to see this process of creation.
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