Selena Gomez Has Found Her Balance

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The actor-singer-entrepreneur stars in Emilia Pérez, the new Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery. Gomez talks with Tonya Mosley about re-learning Spanish, her Disney years, and working alongside comedy legends Martin Short and Steve Martin in Only Murders in the Building.

Also, Ken Tucker shares three great country songs: Maren Morris' "People Still Show Up," Dwight Yoakam's "A Dream That Never Ends," and Shawna Thompson's "Lean On Neon."

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0:00.0	This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year,
0:06.9	making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward.
0:12.7	More at IU.edu slash forward.
0:16.6	This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley, and I recently had the chance to check out the movie
0:21.7	Amelia Perez, the new Spanish language musical that stars my guest today, Selena Gomez.
0:28.7	The film is centered on a lawyer named Rita, played by Zoe Saldana, who was kidnapped,
0:34.1	and tasked with helping a ruthless Mexican cartel leader secretly undergo gender-affirming
0:39.3	surgery to begin a new life as Amelia Perez.
0:43.5	Selena Gomez plays Jesse Del Monte, the wife of the cartel leader, who knows nothing
0:48.8	about her husband's transition and is led to believe that Amelia Perez is a distant cousin.
0:55.0	The film is almost entirely in Spanish,
0:57.6	and Gomez, who grew up speaking it but lost fluency,
1:01.1	took lessons to prepare for the role.
1:03.7	Here she is singing a stirring performance of Biennita,
1:07.5	which means welcome.
1:09.1	Vienvenida, a tu paes samato bonita. which means welcome. That's and the family by the
1:41.8	house of your
1:41.9	hallold
1:42.3	that's Selena Gomez singing in the new Netflix movie musical Amelia Perez.
1:50.6	As an ensemble, Gomez, along with Zoe Saldana and Carla Sophia Gascone,
1:56.1	who portrays both Amelia Perez and the cartel leader before she transitions,
2:04.1	won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Actress.
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