Zoe Saldaña says she 'collapsed' immediately following her Oscars win for 'Emilia Pérez'

It turns retired Zoe Saldaña was much than conscionable emotionally drained aft tearfully accepting her supporting histrion Oscar for “Emilia Pérez” astatine this year’s Academy Awards — she was besides worn retired physically.

The 46-year-old histrion explained Wednesday connected the ABC speech amusement “Live With Kelly and Mark” however she had been warring a acold and felt afloat exhausted instantly pursuing 1 of her career-defining moments.

“I collapsed close after. I mislaid my dependable wrong an hr aft I won the award,” she said. “I couldn’t basal connected those heels that I had. All I wanted to bash was crawl successful furniture and possibly cry. I don’t cognize why, I conscionable needed to cry.”

The “Avatar” prima noted that up until that constituent her assemblage was moving connected each cylinders for months connected extremity during awards season.

“Your assemblage is moving connected axenic adrenaline truthful you cognize that your immune strategy is successful optimal condition, but erstwhile you archer your assemblage that it’s over, past everything benignant of collapses,” Saldaña said.

The Oscar triumph capped an awesome awards play tally for the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor, having won the Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Critics’ Choice awards for her relation arsenic Mexico City lawyer Rita Castro successful “Emilia Pérez.”

While her show was astir universally celebrated and well-regarded, the movie arsenic a full was heavy criticized for its incomplete and violative portrayals of transgender issues and the deficiency of information taken successful depicting Mexico.

LGBTQ+ media advocacy radical GLAAD declared the movie is “Not Good Trans Representation.” The enactment did not nominate “Emilia Pérez” for immoderate GLAAD Media Awards.

Although physically and emotionally exhausted, Saldaña managed to marque immoderate attention-grabbing statements successful the Oscars property country aft a Mexican writer noted that the movie’s presumption of Mexico was “really hurtful for america Mexicans.”

“First of all, I’m very, precise atrocious that you and truthful galore Mexicans felt offended,” Saldaña said successful the defence of the film. “That was ne'er our intention. We spoke and came from a spot of love, and I volition basal by that.”

She went connected to further disagree with the Mexican journalist’s constituent of presumption regarding the centrality and value of Mexico successful the 13-time Oscar nominated movie.

“For me, the bosom of this movie was not Mexico. We were making a movie astir friendship. We were making a movie astir 4 women,” Saldaña explained. “And these women are inactive precise cosmopolitan women that are struggling each day, but trying to past systemic oppression and trying to find the astir authentic voices.”

Outside of the issues wrong the film, overmuch of the main formed and unit of the movie was bogged down by mostly self-inflicted antagonistic press.

Actor Karla Sofía Gascón faced backlash successful January aft Canadian writer Sarah Hagi resurfaced tweets dating from 2016 to 2023 that spoke negatively of Muslims’ clothing, connection and civilization successful her location state of Spain. Additionally, Gascón caught vigor for resurfaced comments astir the 2020 sidesplitting of George Floyd, the ensuing radical reckoning, the Black Lives Matter question and the COVID-19-era Academy Awards ceremonial successful 2021.

Gascón aboriginal apologized for her erstwhile online remarks and deactivated her X account.

The film’s manager Jacques Audiard spoke openly connected grounds astir however small helium prepped to represent Mexico and denigrated the Spanish connection during his property tour.

When asked by a Mexican writer astatine a reddish carpet lawsuit astir however overmuch helium had to survey up connected Mexico and Mexican civilization to hole for the movie, Audiard gave a telling answer.

“No, I didn’t survey that much. What I needed to know, I already knew a small about,” the filmmaker said. “It was much astir capturing the small details and we came a batch to Mexico to spot actors, to spot locations, to spot the decorations and truthful on.”

Speaking with the French outlet Konbini, Audiard spoke down connected the Spanish language, saying, “Spanish is simply a connection of humble countries, of processing countries, of the mediocre and migrants.”

Audiard aboriginal apologized for his comments aft the movie received backlash from Mexican audiences.

Selena Gomez, who played a pivotal supporting relation successful the film, was criticized for her proficiency successful Spanish. Mexican histrion Eugenio Derbez was among those who called retired Gomez’s show and Spanish connection ability.

Gomez has antecedently said her Spanish fluency waned aft she started moving successful tv astatine property 7. She responded to the disapproval connected societal media, saying, “I did the champion I could with the clip I was given. Doesn’t instrumentality distant from however overmuch enactment and bosom I enactment into this movie.” Derbez aboriginal apologized.