Zoe Saldaña apologizes to Oscars 2025 reporter over ‘hurtful’ ‘Emilia Pérez’
nypost.comper Variety.The “Avatar” star added: “I don’t share your opinion. For me, the heart of this movie was not Mexico. We were making a film about friendship.
We were making a film about four women.”The movie follows a Mexican cartel kingpin (Karla Sofia Gascon) who transitions into a woman, with help from a lawyer (Saldaña).
Selena Gomez co-stars. “The cartels are these symbolic metaphorical ideas in the American imagination,” Héctor Tobar, author of “Our Migrant Souls” and professor at the University of California in Irvine, told USA Today.
Regarding “Emilia Perez,” he added, “That subject material is always going to be extremely problematic and like every other film about cartels, it can’t help but glorify them.”Saldaña continued her defense of the film by saying that the main characters “could have been Russian, could have been Dominican, could have been Black from Detroit, could have been from Israel, could have been from Gaza.” She added, “And these women are still very universal women that are struggling every day, but trying to survive systemic oppression and trying to find the most authentic voices.
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