Mexico City, Mexico - January 16, 2025 The French director Jacques Audiard argued this Thursday in an interview with EFE that he “would not change” 'Emilia Pérez', his latest award-winning film about an “interpreted reality” of Mexico, which has sparked an intense debate regarding the treatment of two of the most pressing issues afflicting this country: drug trafficking and the victims of disappearances. Camera: AMÉRICA NERI STATEMENTS FROM THE FRENCH DIRECTOR, JACQUES AUDIARD: “I wrote a lot and I was very careful, I had no desire to offend Mexicans, to hurt anyone. On the contrary, it seems to me that singing softens things, singing allows us to talk about things that are difficult for us”. “What I tried to do is to show the Mexican reality in the form of an opera. And I wanted to make a women's film set in Mexico (...) I had wanted to make an opera for thirty years and I did it.” “I was dedicating four and a half years of my life to talk about a Mexican subject, about people I love, so I was not working to scandalize anyone, nor to offend anyone.” “I am very happy and proud of the actresses, that they have been rewarded (...) What happened at the Cannes Film Festival with the four actresses, that's something that had never happened before”. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]