You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast and V's are my interviews with the stars from the film Emilia Perez.

Zoe Saldanya, Selena Gomez, and Edgar Ramirez.

Hi, Zoe.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

It's wonderful seeing you.

I want to first start off by asking, I've heard you talk about this role in this movie so passionately now in a number of Q&A's audience introductions and also read interviews as well. You've had such a great career. You truly like have done it all in this business. But I'm really getting a sense that right now you're really appreciating

the love that you're receiving from everyone for your, for not just your acting abilities,

but to showcase your singing, you're dancing. It's a full package performance that I could tell

you're really deeply proud of. Can you tell me just a little bit about what this has meant

to you, winning the best actress prize it can and just being a part of this whole process where people are really, I think, recognizing you as opposed to, say, the visual effects.

Let's just say.

It's helping me reconnect with my inner child.

You know, that young version of me, that young part of me, that signed up for all of this

because I was wishing every night and I was dreaming about this and being a part of storytelling

and, you know and playing amazing characters

that would take me for journeys that I could never otherwise do.

Being recognized for your art means a lot.

Sometimes it means everything,

because as artists, without that recognition,

without being able to share our art,

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