Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Édgar Ramírez on the Politics of ‘Emilia Perez’: ‘We Don’t Recognize the Country in Which We Live’
variety.comEmilia Perez” got personal about the politics of their genre-bending musical on Sunday. Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Édgar Ramírez fielded questions at a press conference for the Jacques Audiard project about the film’s setting in Mexico — a country torn by cartel violence as it heads for a summer election.
A Mexican journalist asked the actors if they could reconcile the beauty of the film with the real world corruption occurring in the nation. “I’ve been living in LA for 20 years.
Mexican culture, that’s something that’s dear to my heart. I have lots of family there. There is injustice and corruption, which is true of all places in the world.
But I’m grateful to Jacques because he used a lot of creative library and freedom [in this story],” said Saldaña. Gomez said she related “so much to what Zoe said.
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