Eugenio Derbez has apologized to Selena Gomez for his feedback on Selena Gomez’s efficiency in Emilia Pérez, saying his “careless feedback … go in opposition to every little thing I stand for.”
During a latest look on the podcast Hablando de Cine, the CODA actor criticized Gomez’s Spanish within the movie, calling it “indefensible.” Gomez, who shouldn’t be fluent in Spanish, speaks and sings the language as her character Jessi del Monte within the movie.
“Selena is indefensible,” Derbez instructed the podcast host Gaby Meza, as a clip on TikTok exhibits. “I used to be there [watching the film] with folks, and each time a scene got here [featuring Gomez], we checked out one another and stated, ‘Wow, what is that this?’”
Meza, who known as Gomez a “very proficient actress” and “superb singer,” added that “Spanish is neither her main nor secondary language nor fifth. And that’s why I really feel she doesn’t know what she is saying, and if she doesn’t know what she’s saying, she will’t give her performing any nuance. … And that’s the reason her efficiency shouldn’t be solely unconvincing however uncomfortable.” Derbez agreed with that evaluation.
Gomez responded within the TikTok feedback, writing, “I perceive the place you might be coming from. I’m sorry I did the most effective I may with the time I used to be given,” she wrote. “Doesn’t take away from how a lot work and coronary heart I put into this film.”
Derbez adopted Gomez’s response with an apology, which he posted in a letter on TikTok. “I really apologize for my careless feedback — they’re indefensible and go in opposition to every little thing I stand for,” Derbez wrote. “As Latinos, we should always at all times assist each other. There’s no excuse. I used to be incorrect, and I deeply admire your profession and your form coronary heart.” He added that the movie deserves to be celebrated and “not diminished by my inconsiderate remarks.”
The Jacques Audiard-directed Emilia Pérez tells a story of Mexican drug wars and LGBTQ+ liberation and options Gomez, Zoe Saldana, and Karla Sofía Gascón singing in Spanish and dancing within the musical cartel-gangster movie.
