Spoiler alert. That’s actress Karla Sofia Gascón enjoying each roles in Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez.”

The movie, now streaming on Netflix, follows Emilia (Karla Sofia Gascón), a feared drug lord who seeks the assistance of a lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), to faux her demise and endure gender-affirming surgical procedure.

Gascón portrays a fearsome drug lord earlier than Emilia’s transition. It took a crew of artisans who thought-about Mickey Rourke’s character Randy Robinson in “The Wrestler” to be the prime inspiration. From starting to finish, creating Emilia’s pre-transition look took three hours; an hour and a half of that was prosthetics utility.

Prosthetic items have been utilized to Gascón’s nostril, jawline and cheeks to make her look as masculine as doable. Make-up division head Julia Floch Carbonel labored carefully with SFX make-up artist Jean Christophe Spadaccini to experiment with totally different noses, broken pores and skin and hairstyles. Carbonel’s problem was attempting to make Emilia look scary. Carbonel says. “I dug by way of my inspiration and Mickey Rourke in ‘The Wrestler’ [had] the kind of face who fought with naked palms, but in addition stored a sure coquetry and adornment — tattoos, lengthy hair, skinny eyebrows, steel enamel.”

Carbonel additionally added face tattoos.

The character resonates with Gascón on a deeply private degree – if nominated, Gascón could be the primary overtly trans actress to obtain an Academy Award nomination.

Talking about her post-transition look as Emilia, Gascón labored carefully with Carbonel. “I wished the character to be stunning and have a picture be as far faraway from masculinity as doable.” Gascón continues, “Finally, the crew picked the perfect shade palette (choosing beige, khaki, yellow, brown and peach to reinforce her comfortable options). I actually bought to belief the crew and the concepts they proposed.”

Watch Gascón’s transformation above.