Zoe Saldaña received her first Oscar this 12 months for her work on Emilia Pérez.
The star took the Academy Award within the Greatest Supporting Actress class and in a brand new interview revealed that her statuette is “trans.”
“We have now it in my workplace and my Oscar is gender fluid,” Saldaña informed Folks.
Saldaña additionally mentioned that the Oscar “goes by “they/them” pronouns.
The Oscar winner performed the function of Rita in Emilia Pérez, an lawyer who agrees to assist a cartel chief endure a intercourse change operation.
“Thanks to the Academy, for recognizing the quiet heroism and the facility in a girl like Rita, and speaking about highly effective girls,” Saldaña mentioned throughout her acceptance speech on the Oscars. “Jacques, you’re a beloved character in my life. Thanks for taking the curiosity. Thanks for being so interested by these girls to inform this story. To my forged and my crew of ‘Emilia Perez,’ I’m sharing this award with you.”
Saldaña additionally talked about her household and grandmother, saying, “My grandmother got here to this nation in 1961 — I’m a proud baby of immigrant dad and mom… I’m the primary American of Dominican origin to simply accept an Academy Award, and I do know I can’t be the final. I hope. The truth that I’m getting an award for a job the place I obtained to sing and communicate in Spanish — my grandmother, if she had been right here, she can be so delighted, that is for my grandmother.”
Saldaña isn’t the primary particular person to say their Oscar goes by they/them pronouns. Contemporary off her Oscar win in 2023, Jamie Lee Curtis went on the Immediately present, the place host Savannah Guthrie requested if “she named her,” referring to the trophy.
“I’m in help of my daughter Ruby. I’m having them be a they/them,” Curtis mentioned. “I’m going to only name them ‘them.’ They/them, and they’re doing nice, they’re settling in, and I simply, in my life, I by no means noticed it in one million years that I’d have this couple days, and I’m very moved by the entire thing.”
