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Karla Sofía Gascón Interview on ‘Trinidad’ Film Villain, ISII Group

Karla Sofía Gascón Interview on ‘Trinidad’ Film Villain, ISII Group

Spanish film company ISII Group is inviting audiences on a star-studded cinematic trip to the American Wild West with its most ambitious feature film so far, the action-adventure Western Trinidad, starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Paz Vega, Gabriela Andrada and Sofía Allepuz. Written and directed by Laura Alvea and José Ortuño and set to premiere in Spain on Nov. 13 by ISII’s Deep Com Roots, Trinidad tells the story of a young Spanish woman, played by Andrada, who moves to the American Wild West with her mother (Vega) and sister (Allepuz) to escape legal issues. She finds a new life as a gunslinger, which allows her to support her family, but also creates enemies, including the widow Bronson, portrayed by Gascón in her first major role since her Oscar-nominated work in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez. Led by CEO Silvia Carvalho, the Madrid-headquartered ISII Group, founded in 2024, has been gearing up for its inaugural Cannes after making its market debut at Berlin via its international sales and distribution firm Deep Com Roots earlier this year. The company says it has been in …

Karla Sofía Gascón Trolls Timothée Chalamet Amid Opera, Ballet Backlash

Karla Sofía Gascón Trolls Timothée Chalamet Amid Opera, Ballet Backlash

The fallout from a misconstrued comment Timothée Chalamet recently made about keeping shared, in-person art experiences alive is coming to define the closing stretch of his best actor Oscar campaign, as fellow recent nominee-turned-pariah Karla Sofía Gascón is now weighing in on the controversy with her own humorous take. Chalamet, who has been promoting the hell out of his Oscar vehicle Marty Supreme this awards season, has swept up nearly every prize in his march toward what could be his first Academy Award win. But that campaign ubiquity may now be backfiring on the beloved actor after comments he made in conversation with Matthew McConaughey at a Variety and CNN town hall. The offending foot-in-the-mouth comment came while the actor was discussing the importance of cinemas and the collective experience of seeing films in theaters. At that point, Chalamet appeared to overstate the level of life support needed to keep ballet companies and opera productions afloat today, while also perhaps understating their popularity. “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, or things …