Emilia Pérez actress Karla Sofía Gascón is going through backlash after her previous controversial feedback made on social media had been resurfaced.
The Spanish star, 52, grew to become the primary overtly transgender actress to be nominated for the Finest Actress Oscar when nominations had been unveiled Jan. 23 and Netflix’s Jacques Audiard-directed Emilia Pérez led with 13 nods. Her historic recognition adopted nominations for a Display Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe.
Amongst her since-deleted posts on X that garnered backlash, as shared by journalist Sarah Hagi in screenshots this week, are feedback about Muslim tradition, George Floyd, range and extra.
In a put up reportedly reacting to the 2021 Academy Awards ceremony, in line with Variety, Gascón wrote, translated to English, “Increasingly more the #Oscars are trying like a ceremony for unbiased and protest movies, I didn’t know if I used to be watching an Afro-Korean pageant, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Other than that, an unsightly, ugly gala.”
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In a deleted 2020 put up, the actress allegedly wrote, “Is it simply my impression or are there extra muslims in Spain? Each time I am going to choose up my daughter from college there are extra girls with their hair coated and their skirts all the way down to their heels. Subsequent yr as an alternative of English we’ll have to show Arabic.”
One X person, linking to Hagi’s posts, wrote that they’re “interested in how the emilia perez solid and academy voters will reply to karla sofia gascon’s islamophobic and vile tweets. the truth that these tweets span years, and there are such a lot of of them, show that these are her constant and blatant beliefs.”
In a press release to PEOPLE on Jan. 30, Gascón addressed the resurfaced tweets. “I need to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have triggered damage,” she stated. “As somebody in a marginalized group, I do know this struggling all too properly and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve triggered ache. All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I imagine mild will at all times overcome darkness.”
Netflix didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.
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Individually, Gascón not too long ago launched a press release clarifying her feedback made in a Jan. 28 video interview apparently aimed toward Brazil’s I’m Nonetheless Right here star Fernanda Torres, her fellow Finest Actress nominee.
Gascón had appeared to assert “there are folks working with Fernanda Torres tearing me and Emilia Pérez down” however later clarified that she didn’t imply to counsel Torres, 59, or anybody “straight related along with her” is smearing Emilia Pérez.
Her remarks, Gascón stated within the assertion, had been “referencing the toxicity and violent hate speech on social media that I sadly proceed to expertise.” She added, “Fernanda has been a beautiful ally, and nobody straight related along with her has been something however supportive and massively beneficiant.”
In an X post on Jan. 29, sooner or later earlier than the resurfaced-tweet controversy, Gascón referred to as herself “Public Enemy No. 1” and wrote, roughly translated to English, about “haters who attempt to invent a brand new controversy or a brand new strategy to insult me every single day. That is good as a result of it awakens neurons, and with that perhaps sooner or later they will be capable of perceive that hatred will not get them wherever.”
