Karla Sofia Gascón’s director didn’t want to ask her to play a man again, but her personal story proved a turning point.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Next week, Karla Sofia Gascón is very likely to be nominated for an Oscar in the best-actress category, which would guarantee her a spot in the Hollywood history books as the first openly trans actress to come anywhere close to that list. Gascón transitioned in 2018.
The story moves at a cracking pace. When Manitas decides to offer Rita a job as his fixer, organising his disappearance and surgery, he has her kidnapped and brought to him with a bag over her head: that’s how he rolls. After the operation, the newly minted Emilia becomes a philanthropist, helping the families of people killed by the trade that made her rich; her transition is not only between genders, but between worlds.
Zoe Saldana, as frustrated lawyer Rita, won this week’s Golden Globe award for best supporting actress. Gascón’s transition followed a period of desperation. “I had to choose to live my own life,” she says. “And in order to do that, I had to get out of the darkness.” After a role of Emilia’s intensity, she says she would happily play a Ninja Turtle; she doesn’t like to take herself too seriously.
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