On Wednesday, November 20th Meryl Streep hosted a screening of Emilia Pérez and moderated a conversation with Selena Gomez in Los Angeles. Of the film and Gomez’s performance, Streep said “It was beautiful. It was just a beautiful, smudged, sensual, incredible performance.”
Emilia Pérez stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Gomez in a story about an attorney Rita Castro (Saldaña) who helps drug kingpin “Manitas” (Gascón) transition and hide his wife (Gomez) and children. When “Manitas,” now Emilia, wants to reconnect with her children, she engages Rita to help, setting into motion a traumatic series of events.
Streep and Gomez co-starred on Hulu’s Emmy-winning comedy Only Murders In the Building. Also in attendance at the screening and Q&A were Annette Bening, Martin Short, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jason Bateman, Jesse Williams, and Jeremy Piven.
Here are a few candid shots of the evening, courtesy of Netflix.
