Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón may have walked away with wins to celebrate at the Golden Globes earlier this month, but she had another prized moment take place that night offstage.
While visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the actress, who expressed how much she’s part of the Star Wars fandom, recalled meeting Harrison Ford on the Globes red carpet, a moment she said got really emotional.
“I met Harrison Ford the other night after the Golden Globes. I was really surprised by the words that he said to me,” Gascón said. “It was wonderful. It was an honor. The fact that we were able to hug, because I was going to say, ‘Harrison Ford, you’re my hero,’ and he told me, ‘There are no heroes here.'”
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Though the actress noted she’d “rather not say all the wonderful things he said” to her, she admitted she cried during their exchange. “So did he. And now I’m only missing Chewbacca,” she said, after revealing that she previously met other Star Wars legends like George Lucas and Mark Hamill.
Of Hamill, Gascón said she and her daughter took a selfie with him when meeting him in Toronto: “When I look at him, he’s the first person in my life that I’m feeling like a fan for me.”
Gascón previously shared images of her interaction with Ford on the Globes red carpet on her Instagram.
“For me, really, the most important moment of the last night was this,” she wrote in the post. “The words of affection that Harrison Ford dedicated to me at the end of the gala, which brought tears to my eyes as I watched his. Thank you hero, you are one of the people who made me love cinema and choose this profession, what luck to have been able to embrace you.”
Next up, Gascón is headed to the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, taking place Jan. 26, where she’s nominated for best actress alongside Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Demi Moore (The Substance).
Then, should Gascón be nominated for an Oscar, the actress is poised to become the first transgender performer to win. Gascón made history by winning the best actress prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, which she shared with Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.
In Emilia Pérez, Gascón stars as a cartel boss who retires and transitions into living as a woman. The film also stars Gomez and Saldaña.
Despite not having experience being the main lead, she told The Hollywood Reporter in her Jan. 11 cover story, “In this film, I had power as a protagonist that I had not had in other places. So there were two ways to take this film. When you face world-class Hollywood stars, you can either approach them as a fan — like, ‘Wow, sorry, excuse me, forgive me for speaking to you,’ etc., etc. — or you can say, ‘I admire you, I adore you, and I respect you, but now we are going to make a movie together and we’re going to do what we have to do.’”
