“He’s the rationale — they’re the rationale — I signed up to do that movie within the first place,” Saldana stated of her nephew within the press room, after first thanking costar Karla Sofía Gascón in her acceptance speech.
Zoe Saldana simply scored an enormous win for Emilia Pérez amid controversy surrounding one of many movie’s stars.
The 46-year-old actress took dwelling the BAFTA Award for greatest supporting actress for the movie, which has been overshadowed by headlines surrounding solid member Karla Sofía Gascón this awards season.
After Saldana’s win, she took a second to focus on “one last item that I did not get to say on stage” — her trans nephew. “I am dedicating all of those awards and the movie Emilia Pérez to my nephew, Eli,” Saldana advised press backstage in London.
“He’s the rationale — they’re the rationale — I signed up to do that movie within the first place,” she stated. “In order the proud aunt of a trans life, I’ll at all times stand with my neighborhood of trans folks.”
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Saldaña performed Rita Mora Castro, a lawyer who helps a Mexican cartel chief acquire entry to gender-affirming surgical procedure.
Emilia Pérez has stacked up the nominations this awards season, receiving 11 for the BAFTAs together with greatest movie, director, main actress Karla Sofía Gascón and supporting actress for Selena Gomez.
Regardless of her costar Gascón being thrust into headlines all over the world for previous controversial tweets, Saldaña nonetheless thanked her in her acceptance speech.
“I need to thank my great solid, Karla, Selena, Adriana… Movies are supposed to vary hearts and problem minds. And I hope that Emilia Pérez did one thing like this, please, as a result of voices must be heard.”
Whereas she did not point out him instantly, since President Donald Trump‘s inauguration final month, he has signed a collection of government actions that might restrict transgender and nonbinary folks’s rights — one among which was an order aimed toward eliminating the thought of a “gender id” separate from intercourse within the federal authorities.
“I’ll take historic motion to defeat the poisonous poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders, female and male,” he stated throughout a marketing campaign speech in October.
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After coming below hearth for alleged previous posts that expressed racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism, Greatest Actress Oscar nominee Gascón apologized and insisted a few of these posts — together with one purportedly attacking Gomez particularly — had been fully fabricated in a latest interview.
The since-deleted tweets, which had been first resurfaced by journalist Sarah Hagi, had been largely posted between 2020 and 2021. One purported instance, dated Nov. 22, 2020: “I am Sorry, Is it simply my impression or is there extra muslims in Spain? Each time I am going to choose up my daughter from college there are extra ladies with their hair lined and their skirts all the way down to their heels. Subsequent 12 months as an alternative of English we’ll have to show Arabic.”
Moreover, in one among Gascón’s unverified tweets from 2022 she allegedly branded Gomez a “wealthy rat.”
Talking with CNN en Español about this put up particularly, per The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón emphasised, “After all that is not mine. I’ve by no means stated something about my companion. I might by no means check with her that approach.”
She then recommended that the timing of this controversy has been to focus on her forward of the Oscars. “I begin occupied with the place this comes from,” she stated, suggesting that it may very well be an try to derail her probabilities at changing into the primary transgender individual to win an performing Oscar.
Since that interview, Gascón has taken a vow of silence for remainder of awards season, in order to not additional negatively impression the movie.
