The musical that tells the story of a Mexican narco capo that changes life by making the leap to a trans woman, Emilia Pérezhe has broken the bad omen that had deflated their expectations of success in recent days. The work of the French director Jaques Audiard has managed to obtain the Bafta award for the best non -English -speaking film on Sunday, despite the controversy unleashed by the controversial racist tweets of its protagonist, actress Karla Sofía Gascón.
Audiard has collected the award and has been “very excited”, giving thanks “they have worked tirelessly on the film.” That included Gascón, who has not attended the London gala. After the director, several cast partners the platform itself Netflixwho directs the promotion of the candidacy, turned their backs on the trans actress, Gascón itself announced that it would not participate in public acts of impulse of the project.
The interpreter remains, however, among the nominees for best actress both in the Bafta and the Oscars.
The American of Dominican origin, Zoe Saldaña, who plays in the film the role of the lawyer of the narco and the subsequent trans woman, has also obtained the Bafta for the best cast actress. Saldaña is nominated in the same category of the Oscar, whose gala will be held on March 11 in Los Angeles.
“My children had told me not to cry,” said the interpreter upon receiving the award. “This is a validation, a true honor (…) has been the creative challenge of a lifetime,” Saldaña summarized.
As soon as a few weeks ago, the actress had harsh words towards her companion Gascon: “It saddens me a lot because I do not support it and I do not tolerate any negative rhetoric towards the people of any group. I can only attest to the experience I had with each and every one of the individuals who were part, who are part, of this film, and my experience and my interactions with them were about inclusion and collaboration and racial, cultural and gender equity . And this saddens me, ”he said.
The BAFTA ceremony, the awards that the British Academy of Cinema and Television awarded every year was the first category of this relevance that took place after the scandal broke out around Emilia Pérez and the chances of success of a film that had initially dazzled most criticism would be uninflar. In fact, he accumulated eleven nominations for British awards and thirteen Americans.