Selena Gomez reveals the advice another woman offered her that upped her acting game

Selena Gomez reveals the acting tip another woman gave her that really improved her craft.

While attending ELLE’s Women in Hollywood bash on Tuesday, Selena opened up People about the best advice she ever received from another woman.

The Only Murders In The Building actress, 32, said she was advised not to take herself ‘too seriously’ by an actress she admired.

Although Selena admitted that the seemingly simple recommendation seemed “silly” and “weird,” she said being able to relax did indeed work.

“I know this sounds weird, but someone once said, ‘Don’t take yourself too seriously,'” she recalled. ‘Because it gives you space, empathy and compassion, and you can dive into a film or character and really appreciate that.’

“That was from an actress I really respect,” she continued. “I know it sounds weird, but it really works if you enjoy it and aren’t in your head so much.”

The advice has clearly worked for Selena: she has received acting nominations for her work on Only Murders In The Building.

More recently, Selena and her Emilia Perez co-stars won Best Actress as an Ensemble Cast at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Spanish-language musical comedy follows a cartel leader (Karla Sofia Gascon) who fakes his death in order to undergo a gender transition to a woman.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to widespread praise, including a joint Best Actress award for Gomez, Gascon, Zoe Saldana and their castmate Adriana Paz.

After a limited theatrical release in the US and Canada on November 1, the film bowed on Netflix this Wednesday to a warm response from critics.

The film has also generated a lot of Oscar buzz The Hollywood Reporter predicting that Selena could get a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

“I don’t like to think anything or be presumptuous,” Selena said when asked about the Oscar speech during an interview with the exhaust last month.

“I just want to say I’m so happy that people are receiving it the way it is.”

She told me too Extra about the price chatter: “I have hives.”

Gomez has received acting nominations for her work on Only Murders In The Building

Gomez recently won Best Actress for her vibrant new film Emilia Perez at the Cannes Film Festival

Gomez posed with Cameron Diaz and her Emilia Perez co-stars Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofía Gascón at the ELLE Women In Hollywood event

“It’s a compliment… We’re so happy that people are receiving it with an open heart and open mind and hopefully it will leave an impression.”

Gomez told THR this week that switching from singing to acting has given her “sanity.”

She also said she enjoyed Emilia Perez’s press tour because reporters didn’t want to bother her about her personal life.

“Every interview I’ve done for this film has not had one personal question asked, and I’ve wanted to kiss every reporter on the mouth and just say, ‘Thank you, because it was so refreshing,’ and I think that’s that is a space that is safer for me,” Gomez said.

Selena has been dating boyfriend Benny Blanco for over a year; pictured last month

She also opened up about her relationship with Benny Blanco, her boyfriend of over a year.

‘This is the safest I’ve ever felt [a relationship]and I see a future with this person,” she told the outlet.

The security Blanco provides has made her feel more comfortable posting photos and videos of them online for her fans to see.

Still, she reminded fans that “there’s so much” about her relationship that “people don’t see,” which is just for her and Blanco.