Zooey Saldanaguest of this episode hollywood reporterof Awards chatter The podcast was recorded in front of an audience at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, where she has been a screen actress for 25 years. Known as the “queen of movie franchises”, she has starred in the “Avatar”, “Avengers”, “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Star Wars” series of films. (She’s the only person to have been in four movies that grossed more than $2 billion.) But this year, she plays a lawyer recruited to help a drug cartel boss on a top-secret mission. Jacques Audiardof unconventional musicals emilia perezshe reminds people that she has more.
those who have seen emilia perez Crazy about it. After its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the film received an 11-minute standing ovation, with the festival jury awarding Saldana and her main co-stars – Carla Sofia Gascón, selena gomez and Adrianna Paz ——Best Actress Award. Since then, the film and its star have continued to receive praise and accolades. Soon, everyone will have a chance to watch the film: it premieres in select theaters in the United States and Canada on November 1, and on Netflix in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on November 13
In the meantime, though, Saldana has been reflecting on the rollercoaster ride she’s been on. As she discusses in this episode, her father was killed in a car accident when she was nine, causing her mother to send her and her sister to the Dominican Republic to live with relatives. There she fell in love with dance, which led to acting – she sang in local musical theater productions and danced in her first film in 2000 center stage. But she wasn’t asked to sing or dance again until emilia perez. (It was also the first film in which she had the opportunity to perform in her native Spanish.)
As she describes it, over the next few years she almost quit the industry (after a bad experience in 2003) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), allowing her to regain her faith in it (photographed by Steven Spielberg on set in 2004) Terminal) and then, quite accidentally, due to James Cameron, J.J. Abrams and Kevin Feige. In between her large studio, VFX-focused projects, she often returns to smaller-scale art studios—including a 2011 Colombia2013 out of the oven and 2014 Infinite polar bears. but it is emilia perez It reminded others — and Saldana herself — of her talent and range.
In just a few months, she will almost certainly receive her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. emilia perez. One of the songs she performed in the film, “El Mal,” is also a frontrunner in the Best Original Song category, and Saldana confirmed when asked that she would be willing to perform the song at the Oscars if nominated and invited She does. This is all new and exciting territory for someone who’s been around for a long time, even if it hasn’t been fully seen and appreciated until now.
