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Lisa McLoughlin

UNCOVERED: Emilia perez star zoe saldana dedicates bafta gong to trans nephew | History Defined

Zoe Saldana’s acceptance speech at the 2025 BAFTAs was noticeably cut-short from the BBC’s broadcast after she won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Netflix musical Emilia Pérez.

The Spanish language musical film follows a fearsome Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofia Gascon) who enlists Rita (Saldana), an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so she can live as her true self, a woman called Emilia.

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