It turns out that Zoe Saldaña was more than only emotionally drained after accepting his actress of support for the Oscar for “Emilia Pérez” at the Awards of this year's Academy, he was also physically exhausted.
The 46 -year -old actor explained Wednesday in the ABC interview program “Live With Kelly and Mark” how he had been fighting a cold and felt completely exhausted immediately after one of his moments defined by the race.
“I collapsed just after. I lost my voice within an hour after winning the prize,” he said. “I couldn't stop on the heels I had. All I wanted to do was crack in bed and maybe crying. I don't know why, I just needed to cry.”
The “Avatar” star said that until that moment his body was running in all cylinders for months during the awards season.
“His body is working with pure adrenaline so that he knows that his immune system is in optimal conditions, but once he tells his body that he has ended, then everything collapses,” said Saldaña.
The Oscar's victory limited an impressive awards season for the actor “Guardians of the Galaxy”, after having won the Golden Globe, Bafta, SAG and Critics' Choice Awards for her role as a lawyer from Mexico City Rita Castro in “Emilia Pérez”.
While his performance was almost universally celebrated and well considered, the film as a whole was very criticized for his incomplete and offensive representations of transgender problems and the lack of consideration taken in the representation of Mexico.
The LGBTQ+ Glaad media defense group stated that the film “is not a good trans representation.” The organization did not nomine “Emilia Pérez” for any Glaad Media award.
Although physically and emotionally exhausted, Saldaña managed to make some statements that attract attention in the Oscar press room after a Mexican journalist noticed that Mexico's presentation of the film was “really painful for us Mexicans.”
“First, I'm very sorry that you and so many Mexicans feel offended,” said Saldaña in the defense of the film. “That was never our intention. We talked and came from a place of love, and I will keep it.”
She continued to disagree with the point of view of the Mexican journalist with respect to the centrality and importance of Mexico in the film nominated at 13 times to Oscar.
“For me, the heart of this movie was not Mexico. We were making a movie about friendship. We were making a movie about four women,” Saldaña explained. “And these women are still very universal women who fight every day, but trying to survive systemic oppression and trying to find the most authentic voices.”
Outside the problems within the film, much of the main cast and the film's team were mostly bogged down from the self -inflicted negative press.
Actor Karla Sofía Gascón faced a violent reaction in January after the Canadian writer Sarah Hagi resurfaced tweets dating from 2016 to 2023 who spoke negatively of the clothes, language and culture of Muslims in her country of origin in Spain. In addition, Gascón captured the heat for resurgent comments about the murder of George Floyd, the racial calculation that is considered, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Covid-19-9-9-9 -9 Academy Awards ceremony in 2021.
Gascón then apologized for his previous comments online and deactivated his X account.
The film director, Jacques Audiard, spoke openly registered about how little he prepared to portray Mexico and denigrate the Spanish language during his press tour.
When a Mexican journalist asked me at a red carpet event about how much he had to study in the culture of Mexico and Mexican to prepare for the film, Audiard gave a revealing response.
“No, I didn't study so much. What I needed to know, I already knew a little,” said the filmmaker. “It was more about capturing small details and we arrived a lot to Mexico to see the actors, see places, see the decorations, etc.”
Speaking with the French departure Konbini, Audiard spoke about the Spanish language, saying: “Spanish is a language of modest countries, developing countries, poor and migrants.”
Audiard later apologized for his comments after the film received a violent reaction from the Mexican public.
Selena Gomez, who played a fundamental support role in the film, was criticized for her competition in Spanish. Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez was one of those who called the ability of performance and Spanish language of Gomez.
Gomez said previously that his Spanish fluidity decreased after he started working on television at age 7. He responded to criticism on social networks, saying: “I did the best I could with the time they gave me. I do not take away the amount of work and heart that I put in this movie.” Derbez then apologized.
