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Feb 2025
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Why Hollywood Turned on the Trans Mexica...

Brett Cooper
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The trans Mexican cartel movie “Emilia Pérez” went from being favored to win best picture at the Oscars, to now being public enemy number 1 in Hollywood — here’s why.


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