One thing you can count on with “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón is she is going to speak her mind. Such was the case last night at the Golden Globes when the fantastic Spanish-language musical, which is directed by Jacques Audiard, won for Best Picture.

Speaking about her orange dress, Gascón said, “I chose these colors tonight — the Buddhist colors — because I have a message for you. The light always wins over darkness. You can put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you can never take away our soul or our resistance or our identity. I want to say to you, raise your voice and say that I won, I am who I am, not who you want [me to be].”

“Emilia Pérez” was the most-nominated film of the evening and was honored with four Golden Globe awards for Best Film – Musical or Comedy, Supporting Female Actor (Zoe Saldaña), Original Song, and Film not in the English Language.

Jodie Foster, who won a Golden Globe for  HBO‘s “True Detective: Night Country,” was equally free spirited in her comments onstage and to journalists backstage in the pressroom.

“The great thing about being this age and being in this time, is having a community of all these people… our ‘True Detective’ team, we love you so much. We’re really here for only one reason, and that is the wonderful, beautiful Issa Lopez, our showrunner, writer, director, I’m so grateful to you and your talents and your friendship,” Foster said.

When asked what excited her more, film or television projects, she said: “Honestly, I think the most exciting narrative filmmaking right now is being done on streaming. That’s where I really go to see performances and to see characters build over time,” she said.

“Although I have to say the features this year are amazing, for me as a feature person, it’s great to see that both can coexist, and there are different ways of telling stories.”

Foster also won an Emmy for the show last year and calls this a “golden age” for older women in Hollywood, who are increasingly being honored for their performances after spending decades being ignored.

“I think something happens, there’s like an organism that gets released in your bloodstream — I’m not a doctor, so don’t follow me on that one — but it just feels like there’s a hormone that happens where suddenly you go, ‘Oh, I don’t really care about all the stupid things anymore, and I’m not going to compete with myself.’”

She continued: “I’m excited about what’s left of my life and who I become, and the wisdom that I can bring to the table. So for me, this is the most contented moment of my career, and I never would have known that. I just never would have known that. But something happened the day I turned 60, and it all just came to pass.”

Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” star, Jessica Gunning received the award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role On Television. 

Delighted to win for her first nomination, she said, “I realized this moment has been a kind of soundtrack for my life for this last year. I cannot believe any of this has happened to me … this has changed my life in ways that I can’t even explain.”