Jacques Audiard, the Oscar-nominated French director ("A Prophet"), is finally getting ready to shoot his next film, "Emilia Perez," this spring with a cast led by Karla Sofia Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña. After "Paris, 13th District," an intimate black-and-white film about millennial love, Audiard is aiming to build a larger canvas for "Emilia Perez," a musical crime comedy which Audiard tells Variety will lense in a studio near Paris instead of Mexico, as originally planned. Gascón, a rising...
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After making his English-language debut with “The Sisters Brothers,” a period film starring Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly and Jake Gyllenhaal, Audiard returned to France with a daring black-and-white relationship drama co-written by Céline Sciamma (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) and Léa Mysius (“Ava”), titled “Paris, 13th District.” Audiard, known for “A Prophet” and Palme d’Or winner “Dheepan,” proved he still has an eye for fresh talent, casting newcomers Lucie Zhang and Makita Samba for the film’s breakthrough lead performances, alongside Noémie Merland. Audiard made his television debut in 2020, picking up directing duties from Eric Rochant on the last two episodes of hit French spy series “The Bureau’s” fifth season on Canal+.
