“Emilia Pérez” costume designer Virginie Montel needed to be mindful of her creations. Since the film was a musical, the actors would need to feel unencumbered by their costumes.
“Emilia Pérez” revolves around lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldaña), who helps a crime boss retire from the cartel business and disappear, subsequently undergoing gender reassignment surgery to become the titular character (Karla Sofía Gascón). Pérez enlists Rita to facilitate a reunion with her wife, Jessi (Selena Gomez). Director Jacques Audiard uses musical numbers to thread the narrative together.
“The theme of ‘Emilia Pérez’ is evolution,” Montel says. “Not
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