Zoe Saldaña apologizes to Oscars 2025 reporter over ‘hurtful’ ‘Emilia Pérez’
Zoe Saldaña apologizes to Oscars 2025 reporter over ‘hurtful’ ‘Emilia Pérez’
- March 3, 2025
- Héctor Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, New York Post, March 3, 2025
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The movie follows a Mexican cartel kingpin (Karla Sofia Gascon) who transitions into a woman, with help from a lawyer (Saldaña). … “The cartels are these symbolic metaphorical ideas in the American imagination,” Héctor Tobar, author of “Our Migrant Souls” and professor at the University of California, Irvine, told USA Today. Regarding “Emilia Perez,” he added, “That subject material is always going to be extremely problematic and like every other film about cartels, it can’t help but glorify them.”
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