Selena Gomez was 'more nervous than ever' for new musical role

Selena Gomez says preparing for her latest relation was "the astir tense I’ve ever been for an audition".

The Lose You To Love Me vocalist plays Jessi Del Monte successful the Spanish-language philharmonic Emilia Pérez, directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard.

The film, which has already been tipped for occurrence astatine the Oscars, follows a Mexican Cartel person who fakes his ain decease and starts a caller beingness arsenic a woman.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Selena says erstwhile she archetypal saw the publication she wasn't definite however it would enactment but enactment her religion successful Audiard.

The grammy-nominated creator admits she had "never truly decently done a musical" before.

"When I work it and understood it I was like, 'How connected world are they going to marque this movie?

"But we ne'er doubted him ever."

In the film, which besides stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz, Selena plays the woman of the Cartel person who becomes Emilia Pérez, played by Karla.

"Jessi is the wife, she’s a mother, she’s struggling with disorder - losing the emotion of her beingness and each the confusing parts of it," Selena tells Radio 1 Breakfast Show's Greg James.

"You’d deliberation it’s a transgression thriller," says Zoe, who stars arsenic Rita - a lawyer tasked with arranging Emilia's sex reassignment surgery.

"But successful reality, it’s a travel of 4 women trying to find their authentic selves and their versions of state and love."

Zoe says earlier her transition, Emilia is an "unredeemable character" but audiences person a "yearning for her redemption".

Emilia Pérez is acceptable to beryllium released successful cinemas and connected Netflix successful the UK aboriginal this period but has already had mostly affirmative reviews.

Selena, Zoe, Karla and Adriana person already bagged the prize for champion histrion astatine Cannes Film Festival and Variety suggests the movie could beryllium the streaming platform's archetypal to triumph champion picture astatine the Oscars.

However, Slant says the movie "tries to beryllium a batch of things, lone to extremity up being astir precise little" and it's besides been accused of utilizing "tropes of trans stories" by Empire.

Karla, who is simply a trans actress, told Deadline that she felt "a batch of responsibility... for this question astir me".

"I’ve done a batch of trying to amended people, to marque them respect me."

Selena was personally praised arsenic a "welcome surprise" by Entertainment Weekly, which said she has "shed immoderate remaining hints of her Disney Channel origins".

The 32-year-old's breakthrough relation came connected Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place successful 2007 but she has continued acting and was precocious nominated for awards for her relation successful Only Murders In The Building.

"I knew I had to embody this different person," Selena says astir playing the relation of Jessi.

"It each had to travel from her. I couldn’t beryllium the popular prima - arsenic cheesy arsenic that sounds."

Despite her occurrence successful some acting and music, Selena says she inactive felt the nerves.

"Because I was truthful honoured and I knew Jacques [Audiard] was specified a visionary and I conscionable wanted to beryllium a portion of it."