Selena Gómez had already left Cannes when the festival jury awarded her, on Saturday, May 25, along with the other three actresses in the film. Emilia PerezKarla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana and Adriana Paz, the female performance award.
If Karla Sofía Gascón, the first trans actress awarded at Cannes, went on stage alone and gave a vibrant speech, there are four who share this award.
Selena Gomez posted a story on Instagram to show her joy. We see her, sitting on the grass, talking on the phone with Zoe Saldana, who tells her her happy news. “I’m very happy,” she says.
Selena Gomez also posted a message to thank the festival and director Jacques Audiard.
“Thank you Cannes! It is a great honor for me to be part of something as special as Emilia Perez -Jacques, thank you from the bottom of my heart for believing in me. @zoesaldana @karsiagascon @edgarramirez25 and everyone involved in this film blew me away. I love you.”
Emilia Perezby Jacques Audiard was screened in Cannes on May 18.
The Spanish-language film tells the story of a Mexican drug trafficker who becomes a woman and changes her life by turning her back on cartel violence. However, it was filmed 9,000 kilometers away, in studios in Bry-sur-Marne. The opportunity for two American stars, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez, to discover this corner of the Parisian suburbs.
“It would have been a challenge to film in Mexico. I looked for many locations there, but there were too many limitations,” explained the director. In the end, the studio “allowed me to make the images I wanted, without letting myself be contaminated by reality.” In Mexico, only an interior scene and a village procession were filmed.
Jacques Audiard won the jury prize. The Palme d’Or was awarded this year to Sean Baker for his film Anola, which, subverting the myths of Cinderella or of Beautiful womanIt goes from the most vulnerable area of New York to the luxury villas of Russian oligarchs, following the relationship between the young stripper Anora and the son of a billionaire.
Source: BFM TV
