In her first main casting since breaking out with Cannes hit Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofía Gascón has signed on to star in Las Malas, a Spanish-language adaptation of the darkish fairy story novel Bad Girls by writer Camila Sosa Villada.
Armando Bó, who gained an Academy Award for co-writing Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2014 drama Birdman, will direct the function and is co-penning the script with Josefina Licitra.
The venture hails from About Entertainment, primarily based in Argentina and Uruguay; Infinity Hill, finest recognized for his or her Oscar-nominated movie Argentina 1985; and Suma Content, the Spanish impartial international manufacturing firm.
Gascón will lead the function within the position of Aunt Encarna, a troublesome however motherly chief of a bunch of trans intercourse staff, whose routine is upset when she finds an deserted child and decides to undertake him with out realizing she is placing everybody round her in peril.
Girls was the debut novel by Villada, an Argentinian actress who can also be trans. A mix of the magical and gritty on a regular basis avenue life, the novel was first printed in 2019 and went on to win a number of awards, together with the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize on the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the Grand Prix de L’Héroïne awarded by the French journal Madame Figaro, and the Spanish Narrative Prize awarded by the Barcelona bookstore Finestres.
Producing the venture are Bó, Natacha Cervi, Mercedes Reincke, Ezequiel Olemberg, Axel Kuschevatzky, Cindy Teperman, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.
Exec producing are Villada, Phin Glynn and Delfina Montecchia.
Gascón broke out with Emilia Pérez, the daring crime musical directed by Jacques Audiard that Netflix picked up out of Cannes. Gascón was honored with the Cannes finest actress award, marking the primary time a transgender lady has gained the award.
Other accolades adopted for the actress, together with nominations for a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice, in addition to being honored with a European Film Award for finest European actress and Savannah Film Festival’s Distinguished Performance award. Emilia Pérez, in the meantime, is the second most–nominated film in Globes historical past and was chosen to be France’s Oscar entry for the most effective worldwide function class. It additionally stars Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Adriana Paz.
Bó co-wrote Biutiful, Iñárritu’s drama that starred Javier Bardem, and is the showrunner, director and government producer of the two-season Amazon Prime Video sequence El Presidente and government producer of the restricted sequence Cromañon. He made his function directorial debut with El Último Elvis, which premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, and in addition helmed Animal in 2018.
Gascón is repped by UTA and GET Agency. Bo is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro.
