Selena Gomez Responds to Eugenio Derbez's Criticism of her Spanish in Emilia Perez

[zodgory]

Selena Gomez Defends Herself After Eugenio Derbez Criticizes Her ‘Emilia Pérez’ Performance https://t.co/6bqQA8dg6n
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 8, 2024
Actor Eugenio Derbez made a guest appearance on the podcast Hablando de Cine, and the topic of the new film Emilia Perez came up of which both host Gaby Meza and Derbez were critical of

Comments

[skyler_white_yo]

I thought her initial response was fine, but she lost me a bit when she slipped in the stan bait.

[phililen3]

I don't speak Spanish and haven't seen this movie either, but I get the gist of what he's saying. I hate it when a character is speaking a language they are supposed to be fluent in, but they sound terrible. It's torture. And it does make the overall performance suffer. If casting was going to get an actor who can't speak the language, then they need to make sure they have enough time to learn so that they are at least passable. I feel that production has to take responsibility here. And the thing is that some people do feel sensitive about hearing their language butchered.

[anachan87]

My pet peeve is when a character is supposed to be from a different country, so they have a foreign name, and they themselves mispronounce it like the italian name Giuseppe, that will end up with a "ee" sound at the end, and although I do not speak all of them, I'm pretty sure the big majority of slavic languages, if not actually all of them, will pronounce J as Y, and not as a G.

[evett]

people also choose J to spell their Ж russian name which is a zh sound (kinda sorta like the "su" in "measure/pleasure")

[smilla_sini]

Really? I've never seen anyone use anything but zh.

[big_ang]

Eugenio Derbez is right and Selena Gomez is a perpetual victim in her head lol

[big_ang]

Ohhh, he also makes a great point of how the “praise” for this shit movie is coming from places and people that do not speak Spanish (especially not Spanish as their first language) lol like I’m just finding out the French director doesn’t speak English nor Spanish but made a movie with a setting in Mexico and it’s in English and Spanish? Ijbol what a mess

[skyler_white_yo]

I haven’t seen the movie, but it sounds like an all around mess.

[monsterlovebosa]

Oh it it and I didn’t even get to the part where Selena is in lol, I only got through a few mins and couldn’t continue to watch.

[ginainabottle]

Reminds of Denzel’s quote about why it was important for Fences to have a black director. To those unfamiliar, this is what he said:

”I'm sure Scorsese could have directed Schindler's List. And Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But there are cultural differences. I know, you know, we all know what it is when a hot comb hits your head on a Sunday morning, what it smells like. That's a cultural difference, not just color difference."

[fernandocolunga]

He’s right bloop