“Emilia Perez” follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofia Gascon) who wants to transition into a woman and escape his dangerous lifestyle. Manitas seeks out underrated lawyer Rita (Zoe ...

Gascón, a Spanish actress who publicly transitioned in 2018, plays both Manitas and Emilia. In the movie, she plays both a notorious, male drug cartel leader named Manitas, and she plays the ...

Emilia Pérez follows the journey of widely feared cartel lord Juan “Manitas” Del Monte who becomes a woman named Emilia Pérez by enlisting the help of an overworked and unappreciated lawyer ...

The film follows a lawyer in Mexico City named Rita Mora Castro (Zoe Saldaña) who makes a deal with the devil, aka cartel leader Manitas del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón). For an enormous ...

Within a few hours, Rita will sell her services, as enabler, counselor, and eventually mediator, to the feared and fearsome-looking cartel boss, Manitas. What Manitas wants is a sex-change ...

She plays both Emilia Pérez and a Mexican cartel boss named Juan “Manitas” Del Monte in the Netflix film. Manitas enlists Saldaña’s character, Rita, to help him arrange gender-affirming ...

The film is a musical about a Mexican drug lord named Manitas del Monte, played by trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón. Del Monte hires a lawyer to facilitate her long-awaited gender transition.