Emilia Perez star Karla Sofía Gascón is reflecting on an iconic second from the award-winning movie, as she opens up in regards to the Selena Gomez ‘slap’ scene.
During an unique interview with Metro, the 52-year-old telenovela actor, who portrayed the position of Emilia within the Jacques Audiard directorial, believed that slapping Selena would have modified the movie’s perspective.
Recounting an occasion from the movie, she advised the outlet, “We had loads of arguments and discussions with Jacques to get him to take away [the slap] from the script as a result of if he had left it like that then we might have misplaced the character of Emilia that we had been constructing thus far.”
The actress stated that any such gesture would have modified the character’s influence, as she additional went on so as to add, “She would by no means have change into the saint she turned by the top of the movie. It would have modified the that means utterly, and the martyr would have ended up being Jessi.
“I really like that scene as a result of it’s the second the place you see Emilia change from pretending she was okay with the whole lot to breaking. It’s a marvellous, marvellous scene.”
For the unversed, the Spanish star rose to fame after transferring to Mexico, and went on to win a number of prestigious awards, together with Best Actress on the Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress on the European Film Awards, and a Golden Globe nomination.
