Laurie Adrianopoli has joined The Mill in Chicago as executive producer of color. She will work with the color team across all of The Mill’s global locations and will foster the growth and development of the color department in the expanding Chicago studio.
Prior to moving to The Mill, Adrianopoli rose through the ranks as a producer at Whitehouse Post where over the course of her career she worked on high profile campaigns for brands such as Allstate, Bud Light, Corona and Capital One.
Karla Sofรญa Gascรณn's performance in "Emilia Pรฉrez" as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascรณn on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. But on this morning, she's feeling contemplative.
"I woke up with such a philosophical streak," Gascรณn says, smiling. "In life, everything can be good or bad. We are a mix of so many things. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you sad, or the other way around."
The dichotomies of life are a fitting subject for Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pรฉrez," a film that puts just about every genre โ musical, crime thriller, melodrama โ into a grandiose mixer, and, by sheer nerve, manages to coalesce into one of the year's most memorable movie experiences. "Emilia Pรฉrez," which began streaming Wednesday on Netflix, is widely expected to be a best picture nominee.
At the center of the "Emilia Pรฉrez" phenomenon โ which began with a barn-storming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival โ is Gascรณn who plays both the menacing cartel kingpin Manitas and the woman who emerges after Manitas fakes his own death, Emilia Pรฉrez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaรฑa) to her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children.
The wild swings of "Emilia Pรฉrez" โ a movie that has earned comparisons to both "Sicario" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" โ wouldn't be possible without Gascรณn. In Cannes, she and her co-stars shared in the best actress prize, which Gascรณn accepted.
"We've been insulted, denigrated, subjected to a lot of violence without even knowing why," Gascรณn said that evening. "I think this is award is so much more... Read More