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The Emilia Pérez performeris an absolute revelation in this thrill ride of a movie — here’s how she brought bright life to the silver screen. Of the many surprises and delights we’ve encountered during this year’s festival film season, none has been more exciting than Karla Sofía Gascón’s breakout moment in Emilia Pérez. Playing the titular lead in the musical crime drama from director Jacques Audiard, she’s an absolute revelation as a fearsome cartel leader who yearns for life as her true self.

Filmmaker Jacques Audiard leads a harmonious team in front of and behind the camera for his musical crime drama. French writer-director Jacques Audiard has proven himself a genre-spanning talent. He’s helmed such diverse features as 1994’s thriller See How They Fall, 2009’s Academy Award-nominated gangster film A Prophet, 2012’s devastating romance Rust and Bone, and 2015’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or-winning portrait of refugees escaping war, Dheepan.

With The Six Triple Eight and Daughters, the actor and executive producer Kerry Washington puts powerful stories in the spotlight. 7 min read If not for Tyler Perry, Hollywood might have missed out on one of its most cherished talents in Kerry Washington. At the end of the aughts, before her iconic starring turn as Olivia Pope in the blockbuster TV series Scandal, Washington felt that she’d achieved what she’d set out to do as an actor and was ready to move on.

The Academy announced the films in contention for 10 categories of the 97th Oscars race, and with 15 mentions across eight titles, Netflix had much to celebrate.

Angelina Jolie transforms into the mythical opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s ethereal film Maria. 8 min read Few icons are as mythic as Maria Callas, the most storied opera singer of the twentieth century. The same could be said of Angelina Jolie.

From musical crime drama Emilia Pérez to laugh-out-loud romcom Nobody Wants This, Squid Game’s second season, and everything in between, we couldn’t get enough of this year’s shows and films. Queue toasts the beloved favorites and breakout talent honored by the 82nd Golden Globes.

In the gripping secret agent series Black Doves, the beloved actor relishes a multifarious role: mother, wife, lover, friend, and deadly spy. 10 min read To portray Helen Webb in the unconventional London-set series Black Doves, two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley found herself immersed in the psyche of the secret agent. After a decade in the employ of a top secret organization, Helen is grappling with who she really is and what she wants from life.

5 min read Adapting The Piano Lesson, one of the most often produced plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, was equally intimidating and thrilling for co-writers Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington. “It’s sacred text for sure,” says Washington, who took on the challenge for his directorial debut.

9 min read On May 5, 1994, the Brazilian city of São Paulo, a metropolitan area of over ten million people, ground to a halt. In the midst of three days of national mourning, the city simply stopped moving as over half of its population lined its streets to bid farewell to a racing driver on his final journey. Draped in the national flag, his casket was carried live around a community in mourning. Over 30 years later his name still resonates, eliciting the deepest and most heartfelt of emotions.

The phenomenal show's star Lee Jung-jae finds his way back to the series that took Korea — and the world — by storm. 7 min read Like Lee Jung-jae, the Emmy-winning actor who portrays him, Squid Game protagonist Seong Gi-hun is a winner. Unlike the 455 other individuals who participated in the series’ titular sadistic competition, he survives, leaving 45.6 billion won richer.