Actress Salena Gomez revealed that when writer-director Jacques Audiard offered her to become a cartel leader’s wife, Jessi Del Monte, as seen in ‘Emilia Perez,’ he reported. ”I did not know that the idea he was aiming at was.” It is in such a way that when I am here and if I have to act like a drunk and throw my shoes and go completely berserk or go crazy, it is very easy to do so. And I was like, ‘Oh? OK,” said Selena about Audiard.
She danced for the audition for the most critical segment, a musical number ‘Bienvenida,’ in which Gomez reacts to her husband being a trans woman and the movie’s main character, Emilia Perez, portrayed by the Spanish actress Carle Gascon.‘I did it once, and Audiard told me to go even crazier.’ And I went totally for it. I fell on furniture, and I fainted; the only thing I was doing was singing at the top of my lungs and dancing like a crazy woman, a drunk crazy woman, I suppose — and it was so bizarre, basically, the entire ordeal.
”I was privileged when he finally got to make up his mind and chose me,” she said. France has this week officially submitted Jacques Audiard’ s daring queer crime musical ‘Emilia Perez’ to the Best International Feature Film category at 2025’s Academy Awards. The picture involves a great cast: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and the Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascon. In the movie ‘Emilia Perez,’ a Mexican drug lord performed by Gascon, finds a lawyer in Saldana to help him transition to life as a woman.
The Shoot ‘em up genre-bending flick bowed at Cannes and was warmly received, earning it the Jury Prize and the Best Actress award, which the movie’s strong-willed cast of women shared. Gomez also said if she Weatherford vocal training or advice to her co-stars, “They did, saying not need it. First off, did you see Zoe? That girl does not need any tips. If anything, I need tips.”
‘Emilia Perez’ releases on Netflix on November 13, reported.
