Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Adriana Paz visit the Variety TIFF Studio to discuss their film 'Emilia Pérez.'
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00:00Before Emilia, you were quite well-known in the music world and doing great things and
00:07What is so great about what you bring to the role? It's a tricky role because you could
00:13Elicit a strong reaction from the audience is a sense of betrayal that comes with it
00:17But you you balance it with such heart and understanding and it's really hard to do
00:23can you talk about getting into that mode and being able to
00:26See the character side would you see and everything that she
00:31Goes, um, I guess I would just say
00:35It was it was Jack. I mean he was
00:39He was the one that saw something in me and I remember in the audition. I
00:44Done things I had never thought I could do just because of how encouraging and the way he saw
00:51the character I just I
00:54Wanted to embody
00:56her completely so adding elements of you know a
01:00Romance or having another connection. I wanted it to feel like you were on that journey with her
01:09But he's I think he's just great and pulls it out of me
01:13And then I obviously have these amazing people who have helped me as well
01:18How many takes of me coming, you know, did you do like oh my gosh, how many
01:29It's so fun though, we didn't want to stop it was like karaoke
01:33On that day. I came in early. I got to see part of it and Anthony Vaccarello was there
01:39Yeah, the designer of San Juan and it was it was so amazing. We all had like goosebumps. Yeah, it's really fun
01:48You