Yahoo Lifestyle 'Emilia Pérez' Star Karla Sofía Gascón Dedicated The Film's GG Win to the Trans Community
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The 2025 awards season may just belong to Emilia Pérez. At the 82nd-annual Golden Globe Awards, Jacques Audiard’s musical cartel crime drama took home four awards, including Zoe Saldaña’s win for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Best Original Song for “El Mal,” Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy.
While accepting the final award of the night for Best Musical, the entire cast, including star Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez, came together onstage and encouraged Karla to speak on behalf of the cast to acknowledge their win. The actress, who is the first openly trans performer to be nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, gave a poignant speech that brought attention to the trans community.
“I chose these colors tonight—the Buddhist colors—because I have a message I have for you. The light always wins over darkness. You can put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you can never take away our soul or our resistance or our identity. I want to say to you, raise your voice and say that I won, I am who I am, not who you want [me to be].”
Zoe, who won the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical or Comedy earlier in the evening, also acknowledged Karla’s talent and her performance being the heart of the film that’s captured the attention of awards season.
“I’m also sharing [this award] with you, Karla,” she said. “No one other than you could have played Emilia Pérez.”
Karla recently spoke with Harper’s Bazaar about landing her role as the film’s titular character and why she will continue to fight for trans rights and representation with the newfound global attention on her career.
“There’s one thing I hope for this world, and that is for us to wake up one day and be seen as just people with our virtues and faults. I keep saying the same thing: Being trans, LGBTQ, hetero, woman, man, young, or old is not going to change how ignorant or intelligent you are,” she said. “What’s the only thing we can do? To try and think for ourselves and try to be better people or try to understand people better.”
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