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Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Selena Gomez in Emilia Pérez (2024)

Zoe Saldaña: Rita

Emilia Pérez

Zoe Saldaña credited as playing...

Rita

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  • Rita: [singing] Hello, very nice to meet you! I'd like to know about sex-change operation.
  • Chirurgien: I see, I see, I see.
  • Chirurgien: Men to women or women to men?
  • Rita: Men to women.
  • Chirurgien: From penis to vagina.
  • Chirurgien: [singing, asking about the sex change operation] Is it for you?
  • Rita: [speaking in normal voice] For me? No.
  • Chirurgien: What would you like to know about it, madam?
  • Rita: [singing] I wanna know it all, what is the protocol? The techniques and the risks? How many operations? How much time do you need?
  • Chirurgien: Mammoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Vaginoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Rhinoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Laryngoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Mammoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Vaginoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Rhinoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Laryngoplasty?
  • Rita: Yes.
  • Chirurgien: Chondrolaryngoplasty?
  • Rita: [speaking in normal voice] What is that?
  • Chirurgien: Adam's apple reduction.
  • Rita: [gasping excitedly while repeatedly swinging/pointing her pen at the Thai surgeon] YES! YES! YES! YES!
  • Rita: To listen is to accept.
  • Rita: Changing the body changes society. Changing society changes the soul. Changing the soul changes society. Changing society changes it all.
  • Rita: You can't keep running from your past if it's the only thing that defines you
  • Wasserman: So. Does your client have a name?
  • Rita: He desires to remain anonymous.
  • Rita: I'm not here to save you, just to guide you
  • Rita: Your truth doesn't need validation from anyone but yourself
  • Rita: Sometimes we need to break the law to find our true selves
  • Rita: If redemption was easy, everyone would seek it
  • Rita: So how did you know he was going to betray us?
  • Jessi: It was in his eyes. You know, the way he was leading us...
  • Rita: But you said you knew Spanish.
  • Jessi: [after a brief pause] I know human beings, Rita.

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