With “El Mal” and “Mi Camino” making the Oscar shortlist for original song, the “Emilia Pérez” tunes are one step closer to being nominated.
If they do get Oscar noms, “Emilia Pérez” star Zoe Saldaña is already thinking about how they could be performed during the ceremony.
“I would only do it — and I’m not pitching something, I’m just inspiring ideas – if we start it with ‘El Mal,’ we go into ‘Mi Camino’ and we end with [Saldaña begins to sing from ‘Las Damas que Pasa’], ‘Dedico este poema,’ and we have a Mexican comparsa come out and make it a beautiful homage to Mexico,” she told me at the Golden Globes first-time nominee luncheon at the Montage hotel in Beverly Hills.
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That said, she’s already nervous about the potential performance. “This is when my dancer, my ballerina brain, comes along because that means that my team needs to make sure that I have enough weeks to rehearse that beforehand, because I’m a perfectionist, but I’m dyslexic and I have a lot of anxiety,” Saldaña said. “I want to make sure that it’s all right.”
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She also recalled being inundated with texts and phone calls after the Globe nominations were announced. She was in Paris at the time. The first to get in touch was her husband, Marco Perego-Saldaña.
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“He was in California. He woke up and was watching it, and it was the best sort of phone call to get,” she said. “And then after that I called my mom. I woke her up and it took her a moment, and she was really happy. Then she went about to making this wonderful prayer that she always does, and it always makes me feel right because it’s like medicine. It’s just thanking the universe, thanking the Lord, thanking everything.”
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The Golden Globes take place Jan. 5. They will telecast live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from 5-8 p.m. PT on CBS. Nikki Glaser will make her hosting debut.
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