Unable to contain her tears, the Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón dedicated her Palme d’Or as best actress at the Cannes Festival to all trans people who, daily, suffer hate. As seen in the video above, the artist’s speech was exciting. The Spanish woman has made history and has already received a call from fellow filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.

And the Spanish actress is the first transsexual to achieve this award, along with her co-stars in the film ‘Emilia Pérez’. The first words that the Spaniard spoke at the lectern on the stage of the film festival were for “all trans people who suffer hate every fucking day”. A speech from the emotion of the award, but above all for what it represents: “I just want to send a message of hope to all of them, as is the case with Emilia Pérez, we all have the opportunity to change for the better.”

In short, and as seen in the images of this news, it is an ovation from the industry to a new time in which There is no room for the hatred that the LGTBI community faces every day: “This news that you see here will be full of comments from terrible people saying the usual things to all of us,” lamented the award-winning actress.

A reality that will only stop with more festivals like Cannes and more actresses like Karla Sofía Gascón who follows in the footsteps of Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo and Chus Lampreave, awarded in 2006 for her work in ‘Volver’ by Pedro Almodóvar. “They told me that they wanted to talk to me, but since I don’t have the phone, they must have talked to my daughter,” assured Sofía, whom we hope to see soon under her direction.