The Debate Around Emilia Pérez

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Emilia Pérez has sparked significant controversy not only because of polarizing remarks from its director and lead star, but for its eccentric storytelling and what many call a downright “off” portrayal of Mexico. The film has received countless accolades and is nominated for 13 Oscars. We spoke to film thinkers in Mexico and the U.S. about what went wrong, what went right, and how critics and fans are responding. Listen to our conversation with Gonzalo Galván from El Heraldo de México, Fernanda Solórzano from Letras Libres, LAist’s Antonia Cereijido, and San Antonio Current’s Kiko Martínez.

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0:00.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.
0:14.0	I'm Maria Innojosa.
0:15.1	Today, discussing the Oscar-nominated film, Emilia Perez,
0:19.4	with film thinkers from Mexico and the U.S.
0:35.3	To say the film, Emilia Perez has been polarizing might be an understatement it has emerged as both a standout in the award circle
0:45.0	but it has also become the butt of jokes for many latinos in the u.s and in mexico the memes about but dear listener before we even get into the film itself,
0:57.7	I have to tell you that just after we recorded the conversation
1:01.0	that you're about to hear, there were tweets that the lead actress
1:05.1	Gadla Sofia Gascon had posted a few years ago.
1:08.5	And while they resurfaced, and they were not good.
1:13.9	The 52-year-old transgender actress had posted about George Floyd using racist language.
1:20.0	She posted anti-Islamic rants.
1:22.6	And she said that the Oscars were looking more and more like Black Lives Matter protests back then.
1:28.7	She also used anti-Asian language during the pandemic, and well, the list goes on.
1:36.5	Gascone, the actress, has since apologized publicly on social media and in an interview with CNN in Spanish.
1:43.6	My most sincere discuses to all the people that can have felt offensive. social media and in an interview with CNN in Spanish. But the Academy has since
1:44.3	discurs to all the persons
1:45.9	that can have
1:47.6	been offended by the
1:49.0	forms that I have to express
1:51.6	me.
1:52.5	But the Academy has since
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