“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 ...

Four years later, Manitas – now known as Emilia Pérez – tries to reunite with her family by posing as Manitas’ distant cousin. As a scholar of gender and sexuality in Latin America ...

“Emilia Pérez.” The name is now synonymous with controversy and contempt. However when the world was first introduced to the ...

GLAAD, the LGBTQ advocacy group formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, called “Emilia Pérez” a “step backward for trans representation” and said the film “recycles the trans ...

For an enormous, life-changing sum of money, Rita agrees to help Manitas complete transitioning and live an authentic life as a woman named Emilia Pérez. They do this in secret, faking Manitas ...

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 ...

Heading into Emilia Pérez I knew very little about the film aside from all the buzz it was getting, it was a musical and that Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana were attached. Imagine my surprise when ...

But an unexpected way out appears, the sort of offer that cannot be refused: to help feared cartel boss Juan "Little Hands" Del Monte--aka Manitas--retire from his business and disappear forever.