Zoe Saldana’s acceptance speech at the 2025 BAFTAs was noticeably cut-short from the BBC’s broadcast after she won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Netflix musical Emilia Pérez.
The Spanish language musical film follows a fearsome Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofia Gascon) who enlists Rita (Saldana), an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so she can live as her true self, a woman called Emilia.
