Selena Gomez on Performing 'Mi Camino' in 'Emilia Pérez' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Adriana Paz visit the Variety TIFF Studio to discuss their film 'Emilia Pérez.'

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00:00Before Emilia, you were quite well-known in the music world and doing great things and

00:07What is so great about what you bring to the role? It's a tricky role because you could

00:13Elicit a strong reaction from the audience is a sense of betrayal that comes with it

00:17But you you balance it with such heart and understanding and it's really hard to do

00:23can you talk about getting into that mode and being able to

00:26See the character side would you see and everything that she

00:31Goes, um, I guess I would just say

00:35It was it was Jack. I mean he was

00:39He was the one that saw something in me and I remember in the audition. I

00:44Done things I had never thought I could do just because of how encouraging and the way he saw

00:51the character I just I

00:54Wanted to embody

00:56her completely so adding elements of you know a

01:00Romance or having another connection. I wanted it to feel like you were on that journey with her

01:09But he's I think he's just great and pulls it out of me

01:13And then I obviously have these amazing people who have helped me as well

01:18How many takes of me coming, you know, did you do like oh my gosh, how many

01:29It's so fun though, we didn't want to stop it was like karaoke

01:33On that day. I came in early. I got to see part of it and Anthony Vaccarello was there

01:39Yeah, the designer of San Juan and it was it was so amazing. We all had like goosebumps. Yeah, it's really fun

01:48You