When they meet again four years later in London, the once-scruffy Manitas has been happily reborn as stylish EmiliaPerez. Both are wonderfully played by the Spanish-born trans actress Karla ...
Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard says it was a simple decision for him to cast a trans woman in the title role of his award-winning film. Audiard, whose film picked up a Best Actress award ...
It stars trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez, a Mexican cartel leader who enlists the help of a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to fake her death so she can live as her true self.
Audiard is never for lack of vision or daring, and that extends to the Mexican “Emilia Pérez,” starring Karla Sofía Gascón as the title trans woman, who’s abandoned her family with the ...