With a voice trained through music, Selena Gomez has delivered great work as a voice actress. Her most iconic voice role is as Mavis, the 118-year-old “teen” daughter of Count Dracula, whose life turns upside down when she falls in love with a human boy.
When Netflix was still starting out with its original indie films, Selena Gomez starred in one of its sweetest, The Fundamentals of Caring. The story follows a man (Paul Rudd) who, after a personal tragedy, becomes a caregiver and ends up looking after a sarcastic young man with muscular dystrophy (Craig Roberts). They go on a road trip, joined by Dot (Gomez), a young woman eager to escape her life and start anew.
Love triangles (and even love squares) are common in Woody Allen’s films, and A Rainy Day in New York is no exception. Here, Selena plays Chan, an acquaintance of the lead character (Timothée Chalamet), who plans a romantic getaway with his girlfriend (Elle Fanning) that quickly unravels as work commitments—and emotional entanglements—get in the way. How will the love quadrangle resolve? That’s the big question.
Jim Jarmusch is one of the most iconic and respected filmmakers in the indie scene, and Selena Gomez worked with him in the zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die. She plays a young traveler who, along with her friends, arrives in a town overrun by zombies. The cast also includes Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton.
For various reasons—many of which have little to do with her—Gomez’s most controversial role to date is in Emilia Pérez, a French film about a Mexican drug lord who wants to transition (Karla Sofía Gascón) and hires a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to help with the process. Gomez plays the crime boss’s wife, left behind with their children when he disappears to begin his new life.