Karla Sofia Gascón’s performance in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez has created buzz since the film premiered at Cannes 2024. She won the festival’s prestigious Best Actress prize alongside co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez and is already in talks to be nominated for the Oscars next year.  

If the prediction becomes a reality, Gascón would create history by becoming the first trans actress to earn an Oscar nomination. On Sunday, September 22, the actress attended the San Sebastian Film Festival in her native Spain and shared her reaction to the possibility. 

“You can do whatever you want to win [the Oscar], if you’re not gonna win it, you’re not gonna win it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. It turns out, the actress is a huge believer of destiny and if there’s an Oscar win or nomination meant to take place in her life, it will. Meanwhile, she can only focus on her current work and keep improving. 

One Tree Hill alum Hilarie Burton is teaming up with former co-star Sophia Bush to produce and star in the show’s reboot. Speaking to PEOPLE, the latter teased that the sequel is vastly different from the original and opened up about the behind-the-scenes experiences of curating the story, which will highlight a feminist perspective.  

Burton added that “being able to work with a team of women and look at these stories [and] these characters through a female lens” was on her checklist for a long time. Whether it would’ve been a reboot or a sequel, she always had a similar vision, which she stuck with throughout the creative process of the upcoming show. “At this phase in my life, female teamwork is something that is so vital to me,” she added. 

The Walking Dead actress noted how everything that brought success into her life was somehow connected to a feminine strength at the core. “So I’m excited to be able to team up with people that I look up to, people that I love dearly,” she said. 

Entertainment Weekly confirmed in August that the One Tree Hill sequel series — which has found its home on the streaming platform Netflix — will see Burton, Bush, and Danneel Ackles reprise their characters. This series comes into existence nearly seven years after the scandal, which involved the female cast and crew, including Burton, Bush, Ackles, and 18 others of the original show, uniting against creator Mark Schwahn for physically and emotionally abusing them. 

Although he never publicly addressed the allegations, he was removed as showrunner of E!’s The Royals in 2017.

Despite the controversies surrounding the show, the reboot announcement received a warm reception from fans, which Burton was thrilled about. “The nicest thing is seeing the positive fan reaction to it and all of our friends from the show commenting on posts and just getting to show enthusiasm,” she told the outlet.