Why Hollywood Turned on the Trans Mexican Cartel Movie | Episode 9
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What is the controversy surrounding 'Emilia Pérez'?
The point here that I am trying to make about all these PR strategies, about all the strategies, is that something happened with Amelia Perez. Something that many believe is a bit suspicious and possibly conspiratorial. Guys, there has been a scandal unfolding in Hollywood that I've wanted to talk about for the last couple of months, but I'm kind of glad that I waited until just now because this involves Hollywood's awards season. This involves the Oscars, which are happening on Sunday night. You guys will be watching this on Thursday. So I have let all of this played out. I have waited until this moment so I can hopefully bring you as up-to-date information as humanly possible, but we need to talk about The film to rule them all of 2025. The film that has literally shaken up the entire Hollywood filmmaking landscape. And no, I am not talking about It Ends With Us. That is shaking up the Me Too and legal landscape and the celebrity landscape.
But this, this other film is shaking up something completely different. Before we dive into this story though, if you want ad-free content, a weekly advice video, we just posted our first one called Dear Brett. If you want all of that and more, plus an exclusive newsletter, please check out my subscriber platform called Cooper Confidential. We will link it below in the description. All right, so the movie in question, you guys might already know this. The movie in question is Amelia Perez. This is the queer trans Mexican musical. That has taken Hollywood by storm in 2024, 2025. My crew off camera is literally shaking their heads in disbelief. You heard that correctly. A queer trans Mexican cartel musical.
It is like they were playing charades or what's that game where you like pull out random things and you have to like, it's like an improv game. When I used to do improv, I used to do things with Second City in LA and you would have to pull random, you know, characters or scenes and landscapes and situations. You had to make something work. You had to like make a scene out of nonsense. I feel like that is what Amelia Perez is. But of course, there is a real story here. And so Amelia Perez is about a Mexican drug cartel leader who fakes his own death to undergo gender-affirming surgery. And then she, now she, re-emerges onto the scene and tries to live this new life and is like re-welcomed by society and her family and her community as a woman.
And yes, all of this is happening through song because it is a musical. Here is a clip just to give you a taste.
Very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about sex change operation. I see, I see, I see.
I see, I see, I see. Man to woman or woman to men.
Man to woman. From penis to vagina.
He's asking the question of, is it man to woman, woman to man, penis to vagina? That is a real thing. This was in a movie, a serious movie, guys, that has shaken up the Hollywood landscape. And not because it is so bad. No, no, no, no, no. It is quite the contrary. It is because everybody loves it so much because this is just a brave, beautiful, trans musical.
13.
If they had just gotten one more measly nomination, they would be in the category of the most nominated Oscar films, of which there are three, which is La La Land, Titanic, and All About Evil. All three of them have 14 nominations. Nobody has ever cracked 15. Amelia Perez, you should have done it. Beautiful trans, penis to vagina musical. You could have beat them all, but no, they came close. A close second with 13 Oscar nominations. It also received 65 nominations across the board with all the other awards like the SAG Awards, the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes. And guys, why do you think that is? Is this such a mystery? Like why did this queer, trans, Mexican cartel musical become the most nominated film and actually the most nominated non-English film in Oscar history.
Why did that happen? Well, because it's about a trans woman of color and it's a musical. I mean, this film is basically infallible until, my friends, until it was not. until it all blew up and imploded because of its creator, sending shockwaves throughout Hollywood and forging an identity politics reckoning, which is why we have to talk about.
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