The Relatable Reason Zoe Saldaña’s Husband Almost Missed Her Critics Choice Award Win

Her role was “the challenge of a lifetime,” she added, thanking director Jacques Audiard. 

She thanked everyone involved, including Netflix, “for believing this was a story that needed to be told.”

And Marco wasn’t in the dog house at all.

“Thank you to my family, especially my incredible husband and my nephew who was with me tonight,” she added. “You made me me, so thank you. And to my boys, my greatest adventure and my toughest critics, I love you.” She and Marco share three sons. 

“My wish for the impact of this film on audiences and our world,” Zoe concluded, “is that I hope we can all be curious and open-hearted towards each other, because you never know when you’ll have the opportunity to be a hero in someone else’s story. So our world is too big and too beautiful to be any other way, so stay curious, stay kind and stay blue—not too blue.”

Emilia Pérez is also nominated for a field-leading 13 Oscars, has received mixed reviews, though they’ve been overwhelmingly positive toward Zoe’s performance.)

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