When Zoe Saldaña was first getting to know “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard, she immediately got a sense of what was important to him by looking around his living room.
“When we were doing all of our rehearsals, I noticed that there were three very strong elements that were very present in your life and it’s books, chairs to read and coffee,” Saldaña told Audiard in the latest installment of TheWrap’s longform video series Visionaries.
“Maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I think I’m more of a reader than a viewer actually,” Audiard responded.
Indeed, the darkly comedic musical “Emilia Pérez” is based on Audiard’s own opera libretto of the same name which itself was loosely based on the 2018 Boris Razon novel “Écoute.”