It seems Spanish transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón has confirmed that she will star alongside Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña in an upcoming film by award-winning French writer and director Jacques Audiard (The brothers sisters).
“Well, why hide it again,” Gascón wrote on social media late last week. “Yes. May everything go well for us.
Deadline first announced in May that Gomez and Saldaña were in talks to join Gascón in the musical Emilie Perez. At the time, Deadline described the film as a story about “an El Chapo-type fugitive” who tries to evade law enforcement by undergoing gender reassignment surgery. The outlet also described it as “along the lines of Mrs Doubtfire.”
Gascón recently told Azteca America Ventaneando that the film was going to be shot in Mexico.
“We are preparing a film in Paris, of which I will be the protagonist, with a director who won the Palme d’Or and whose name is Jacques Audiard. [and] with a French production company,” Gascón said. “I’m fascinated by Zoe Saldaña, but I still don’t know Selena Gomez.”
Gascón is best known for a handful of telenovelas she has starred in since 2014. These include El Señor de los Cielos, Hasta el fin del mundo, Lena of love, and Corazón salvaje. She also had a role in the 2013 dark comedy Nostoros los Nobles with Gerard Mendez (Murder Mystery) and Karla Souza (Domestical economy).
Earlier this summer, Gomez became just the second Latina appointed for an Emmy Award as Producer of a Comedy Series for her work on the Hulu series Only murders in the building. Saldaña will be seen later this year in films amsterdam and the highly anticipated sequel Avatar: The Way of the Water.
