Selena Gomez loves Nirvana and Zoe Saldaña was Adele's fave neighbour

NME

As their Oscar-tipped film 'Emilia Pérez' hits Netflix, stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña tell us about their most-played albums, top celeb run-ins and what it's like to get a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival.

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00:00Just cut to the chase, to listen is to accept.

00:06Hi, I'm Alex from NME, and today I'm joined

00:08by two absolute mega stars from the cast of Emilia Perez.

00:12It's Lina Gomez and Zoe Saldana.

00:13How are we?

00:14We're good, thank you for having us.

00:16The first thing I want to do is pull out a couple of scenes

00:18from the film that absolutely set me

00:21and see how they were for you guys.

00:23Number one, when Emilia's in bed with her son

00:26and he says, you smell like papa,

00:29but he doesn't know that she's transitioned.

00:31I'm crying, she's crying,

00:33you guys must have been crying as well, right?

00:35Yes.

00:36Yes, I wasn't there when they shot it,

00:38but I'm just hearing you say that I'm jet lagged,

00:41but it makes me want to cry

00:42because it is a very special scene

00:45and it's one of my favorites as well.

00:47I remember, I remember, you know,

00:49having some rehearsals with Carlo

00:52and she was learning, you know, that song.

00:55And then when she sang it, I was deeply emotional.

00:59It's a beautiful song.

01:01As a child, I remember just my life

01:04and the love that I have for my parents

01:06through this, how they smelled.

01:07And they just smelled like,

01:08my mom smelled like double mint gum

01:10because she used to always like, you know, crack the gum.

01:12She was always chewing gum.

01:14And my dad just always smelled like cologne

01:16and so delicious.

01:17And the fact that Jack wrote a piece about that

01:21means that he's really connected

01:24with his son's memory of his childhood as well in some way.

01:27And he knew that that's a way of the child

01:30and the mother to bond in Emilia.

01:32So that was deeply moving.

01:34When I saw it after it was executed

01:37and we saw it for the first time in the movie,

01:40that was a very emotional scene.

01:42Scene number two, it's another one for you, Zoe, actually,

01:44is the all-singing, all-dancing gala scene.

01:47Amazing.

01:48But did they call an ambulance for you afterwards

01:50because you must have been in absolute bits

01:52because it looked so demanding.

01:54Actually, I was waiting for somebody

01:56to ask me that question.

01:58My C5, C6, and C7 on my bag after shooting El Mal

02:04was definitely, they were a little inflamed.

02:07So I was a little sore for longer than I can anticipate,

02:11but it was so worth it.

02:13I was nervous.

02:14I was deeply afraid,

02:15wanting that scene to come out really well.

02:17We rehearsed it for maybe like an average of like five,

02:20almost six weeks.

02:21After we shot it, the rush of blood to the head,

02:25the adrenaline that I felt was invigorating.

02:28It's so good.

02:29Yeah, it looks so good.

02:30It's so epic.

02:47We ask this of everyone we interview,

02:48but what's your go-to all-time favourite album

02:52that you just keep going back to all the time?

02:54When I was a child,

02:54there's this Dominican singer called Juan Luis Guerra,

02:58and he's known all through Latin America,

03:00Europe, and other, and in Asia, he's really respected.

03:04But he's a poet,

03:06and the way that he relates to love and other feelings

03:11through just sense memory is quite amazing.

03:15So I just, I love the music of Juan Luis Guerra.

03:18I've always talked about him.

03:19And Maxwell.

03:21There was an album that he did.

03:24It wasn't the Lounge one, but it was right after it,

03:26and it was really great.

03:29It was in the early 2000s,

03:30and I can just press play on that album,

03:33and just like let it play until the end.

03:34It was wonderful.

03:36Okay, I think mine are probably Adele.

03:40Ooh, yes.

03:4119.

03:42Oh, the first one.

03:43The very first one.

03:45I related to a lot of those.

03:47Chasing Pavements.

03:48Yes.

03:49It's so beautiful.

03:50It's so addicting.

03:52And then Frank Ocean's Orange.

03:55Oh my God, of course.

03:57That one's amazing.

03:58So good.

03:59Have any of you ever run across

04:00any of those musicians in real life?

04:02I don't think that she will mind me saying this,

04:05but Adele and I were neighbors in LA.

04:09Oh, wow.

04:09So we became friends,

04:12and our children have played together,

04:15and I can honestly say that

04:17once you meet the person behind the artistry,

04:21a much deeper level of respect for her.

04:24She's a remarkable woman.

04:26Living next door to Adele with Zoe Saldana

04:28sounds like a sitcom.

04:29No, honestly.

04:31Yeah.

04:32But a great one.

04:33The one I want in on.

04:34A really great one.

04:35Usually you would just see us in like a row of moms

04:38kind of like, you know,

04:39just looking at our kids going,

04:40what are you doing?

04:41What are you, stop.

04:42Can you please stop that?

04:44Look at mommy.

04:44Eye contact.

04:45Thank you so much.

04:46Like, that's pretty much like our days.

04:47That's mom life.

04:49Selena, I thought you were going to talk

04:50maybe about Nirvana,

04:51because I saw that video interview.

04:53You just completely obsessed

04:54talking about your love of Nirvana

04:55from where you heard it.

04:56I absolutely should have said,

04:58yes, I should have said one of his or theirs.

05:03I am still.

05:04I dyed my hair to be the exact color of Kurt Cobain.

05:08I mean, his documentary is one of my favorites

05:12that music documentaries.

05:15Montage of Heck.

05:16Yes, Montage of Heck.

05:17I've watched maybe 10 times.

05:19It's very emotional,

05:21but really impactful.

05:23Yeah, it's so different, isn't it?

05:24Because obviously it's animated

05:25and it's just so clever.

05:26I think that's why I'm drawn to it so much.

05:28I felt so many things watching it.

05:29Because we're enemy,

05:30I can't let you go away, Selena,

05:32without asking you for an update on your new album.

05:34Well, if I had one,

05:37I would love to talk about it.

05:40No, I think right now

05:41it's been really nice focusing

05:43on this side of the playing field.

05:47We'll see, you never know.

05:48I hope you continue making music.

06:11Good night.

06:13What was the most memorable part

06:14of recording and rehearsing those for you?

06:16I think just being in the recording studio

06:18and collaborating with someone

06:20like Camille and Clément Ducon.

06:22Like, they are so talented.

06:25It was really profound.

06:27And the way that they sort of took a deep dive

06:30into the Mexican culture.

06:31And there was a great deal of admiration and respect.

06:35And I felt that with all their compositions.

06:38I just, I was having a lot of out-of-body sensations

06:42just being there,

06:43because I've never really been in a studio.

06:44Yeah.

06:45It's quite a beautiful place to be in.

06:46It's very peaceful at times.

06:50And I would say for me, personally,

06:52it's the highest note I've ever hit in history.

06:56It was for this movie.

06:57And it was because of their motivation.

07:00They were like, I tried in an octave lower

07:03and I was just like, this isn't,

07:04this doesn't sound as like, mm, at the end.

07:07And they were like, just go for it.

07:09And I belted it out as loud as I could.

07:12I was like, this is going to sound so bad,

07:13but I did it.

07:15And I was so happy.

07:16There was a nine minute standing ovation at Cannes.

07:19And you guys, you stood up, you're sort of,

07:21oh, thank you very much.

07:22By minute seven of those kinds of standing ovations

07:25at Cannes, are you not thinking, right,

07:28do we go now?

07:29Or do we just, when are they going to stop?

07:30Oh, I was very unsure.

07:33Until I saw Jacques walk away,

07:35I was right behind him because it was so overwhelmingly

07:39like, yay, people like it and we did something.

07:43But at the same time, I'm a little uncomfortable

07:47with some of, you know, compliments and things.

07:49So as soon as I saw Jacques leave, I was like, thank you.

07:53You're like, okay, I get it, I'm great, okay, thanks.

07:55Come on, wrap up now.

07:56It forces you to be present.

07:59That was, and that's vulnerable, that's overwhelming.

08:03It was very present.

08:05And the more it kept sort of like vibrating

08:08and coming forward.

08:09Then you go through all these stages of, they must mean it.

08:13They must mean it, this must have moved them,

08:16like it's moved me.

08:17And then that realization makes you emotional.

08:20But yes, as soon as Jacques started walking,

08:22we're like, please.

08:23Yeah.

08:24♪ Here we are ♪

08:27♪ Here we are ♪

08:31♪ Here we are ♪

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