Karla Sofía Gascón had already been in Venice, but never at the Film Festival. “It’s wonderful, incredible to give me an award here,” said Saturday just before entering the room where she presented her and the other winners of the Kinéo. An award not organized by the Mostra. But delivered in the heart of the oldest film festival. And after the amazing year that the interpreter has lived, with a double jump: to stardom, and then, to the bottom of the well and ostracism. “Obviously a whole show To get a person. Trans people cannot be an example for anyone’s children, so they had to take out in some way because they only love us in the shadow, ”he added in Venice.
So the Alcobendas actress adds another unpublished chapter to a life full of changes. In the last year, they have even accelerated. First, she embodied a drug trafficker who undertakes a gender transition, such as the one she faced, in Emilia Pérez, of Jacques Audiard. He received an Oscar candidacy for his work, second Spanish interpreter in history, after his citizen Penelope Cruz. But, then, old offensive and racist messages of their social networks reappear. Immediately, it became persona non grata For half the world of cinema. Even the film team turned its back, among many others. He was about not being able to go to the Oscar gala where he was nominated. “A film in foreign Spanish, with a character from a drug trafficker who changes sex, played by a trans actress, who could win the Oscar. Nobody wanted it,” Gascón reflected today.
Hollywood usually worship the stories of promotion and fall but he liked less. The actress’s messages criticized Islam or George Floyd, a deceased man at the hands of the police whose death began the Black Lives Matter movement. The interpreter has asked for forgiveness on several occasions although, at the same time, he has never assumed as his own messages. Finally, in any case, Gascon was Forgive And little by little he is returning to normal. Another different, yes, that of being famous. Has shot the western Trinidad, of Peace Vega; and will participate in The badadaptation of the famous book by Camila Sosa, where he will play the central role of Encarna. And collect the Kinéo award.
The awards itself defines them as a “special collateral event” to the festival: they do not belong to any of its official sections, or parallel. The interpreter, awarded as best international actress, is among the 18 winners, next to the film Conclaveby Edward Berger, among others. They are granted by the homonymous non -profit cultural association. Founded in 2002, with the mission of promoting Italian cinema, he created recognitions “that gave voice to the public of the film rooms, determinants for the life of the industry of the sector, of the exercise and, therefore, of the life of the cinema”, according to its website. That same year, in Venice, the first edition of the awards was presented, held in 2003.
Tonight’s gala will reward the Spanish actress. Although it is not his first recognition after the scandal: in March he was already awarded by the union of actors and actresses. “What gives me angry is that art has to condemn the barbarities that occur in the world and be very involved in politics. But when politics gets into art, that is when we are doing badly. There are many people determined to tell us what can be done or not, the artists who are valid or not, which is generally valid, and we run a very large danger,” he said in Venice Gascon.
Incidentally, the actress has taken advantage of her passage through Italy to meet with local media. And he has left his list of directors with whom he would love to work: Almodóvar, Tarantino, Spielberg, Garrone, Sorrentino or Villeneuve. Not bad, it is clear that Spanish does not lack ambition. The filmmakers are notified.