Zoe Saldaña, the big favorite to take the award, finally won the Oscar for Best Actress of Delivery for . “I am the proud daughter of immigrant parents with dreams and dignity and hands that work hard,” he said upon receiving the statuette in one of the few claiming speeches of the gala. An especially relevant reference in the week in which. “I am the first American of Dominican origin in accepting an academy award, and I know that I will not be the last. The fact that I am receiving a prize for a role in which I had the opportunity to speak and sing in Spanish would make my grandmother, if it were here, were so excited. This is for my grandmother, ”he ended. With the public standing by cheating her, Saldaña also thanked the entire team of the film – without any particular reference to her castmates, among which is Karla Sofía Gascón – and in particular to the other nominated in their category.
Saldaña’s career has been linked, “in a strange, not expected way,”, at the box office of his films. Its filmography adds more than 14,250 million dollars of collection (13,470 million euros), so it is the second highest grossing actress in the history of cinema, and as the continuations are released – yet shot – of Avatar, will advance Scarlett Johansson in The Avengers.
“I do not regret, of course, but I had been waiting for something else,” he said about Emilia Pérez, The film that the Oscar has reported, and that has returned his passion for the dance, which he discovered in his adolescence years in the Dominican Republic. “Notice, there were characters that I rejected for not dancing and I haven’t really done it since my first film, The rhythm of success. Suddenly, mortality gives you another chance. There is a time when your imagination sees something, you feel it, and you convince yourself that you can do it, but life and earth remind you that you already live more in your head than in your body [risas]. So when he arrived Emilia Pérez, When we started with the choreographies to wake up to my body, I realized my limitations and worked very hard. Luckily, I didn’t want a thing with a perfect dancer technique, but Rita expressed, in her own way, what she felt and thought. “
His speech tonight has broken the tonic of a gala away from political references and claims.
