Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón on Selena Gomez, lesbian chemistry and making trans history

When making her new musical crime thriller Emilia Pérez in early 2023, trans Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón took method acting to a near-perilous new level.

“I really immersed myself in the character to the point that my personal stability became a bit at risk,” she says, through a translator who is stifling laughter at the star’s choice of words. “I got so lost in my character that I started to lose sight of where I stopped and my character began.”

In fairness, Gascón is the film’s eponymous lead; a cartel boss who fakes her own death in order to get gender reassignment surgery and become Emilia.

She then sets up an organisation committed to identifying cartel victims, in an attempt to absolve herself of guilt about her violent past.

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