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You know you’re a bona fide movie star when, at the Cannes Film Festival, you receive a nine-minute standing ovation. That’s everyday life for actress Zoë Saldaña, who stars in the new Spanish-speaking, musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez, opposite Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Édgar Ramírez.
In it, she plays Rita, an overqualified and undervalued lawyer at a large firm