Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez Shine at 2025 SAG Awards

Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez appeared together at the 2025 SAG Awards without their Emilia Pérez costar Karla Sofía Gascón, who has skipped awards shows of late after facing controversies regarding offensive past social media posts.

Saldaña, 46, and Gomez, 32, appeared together during the Sunday, Feb. 23 awards ceremony in Los Angeles to present their movie, which is up for three awards. Saldaña is nominated in the outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role category, while Gascón is nominated in the leading role category; the movie's cast is nominated at the SAG Awards' outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.

"Emilia Pérez was a magical collaboration where we got to sing and dance and explore the journey of being authentically yourself," Saldaña said during their appearance.

"Emilia Pérez is a ride unlike any other — it's thrilling, it's heart-wrenching, and it's always one fabulously choreographed step ahead of your expectations," Gomez added. Saldaña also noted, "Every once in a while we get a movie that dares to be unpredictable as life itself, and here she is," before a montage of moments from the Netflix genre-bending crime-drama musical played.

Gascón, 52, has not appeared at awards shows in recent weeks despite her numerous nominations for playing the title character in Emilia Pérez after journalists found that she had written posts on social media that criticized Muslim culture, George Floyd and diversity at the Academy Awards in the past.

While the actress has apologized numerous times for those posts, she seemingly vowed to stay out of the public eye for the remainder of awards season in a Feb. 6 post shared to Instagram after Emilia Pérez's director Jacques Audiard said in an interview that Gascón was taking a "self destructive approach" to handling the controversy.

"Following Jacques interview that I understand, I decided, for the film, for Jacques, for the cast, for the incredible crew who deserves it, for the beautiful adventure we all had together, to let the work talk for itself," Gascón wrote in that Feb. 6 Instagram post. "Hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference. I sincerely apologize to everyone who has been hurt along the way.

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