Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon has apologised for previous social media posts, together with messages that denigrated Islam and referred to as George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler”.
Gascon, who’s the star of the largely Spanish-language Netflix musical, stated in a press release by way of the streaming platform: “As somebody in a marginalised neighborhood, I do know this struggling all too properly and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve brought on ache.
“All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Gascon has made historical past as the primary transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar for greatest actress for her position within the genre-defying musical.
Essentially the most nominated within the Academy Awards race, Emilia Perez is up for 13 gongs, together with supporting actress, unique rating, director, worldwide characteristic movie and greatest image.
It has already received 4 Golden Globes, together with greatest movement image – musical or comedy.
The film is directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard.
Netflix will probably be hoping the controversy would not derail the movie’s possibilities of successful statuettes.
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Outdated posts from Gascon’s Twitter account – some going way back to 2016 – resurfaced this week. In them, she took intention at Muslims’ costume, language and tradition in her native Spain and steered Islam must be banned.
And fewer than a month after the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in 2020 prompted a world reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascon referred to as Floyd a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.
The now-deleted posts have been screenshotted and shared by author Sarah Hagi, who wrote: “This is all from the star of a movie that is campaigning on its progressive values, you really gotta laugh.
“Stuff like this does not get flagged as a result of you’ll be able to say no matter you need about Muslims, it is by no means thought-about racist. once more, this is not even all of them.”
Gascon was an everyday in Mexican telenovelas earlier than transitioning in 2018.
“I added anything that I could to make it a little bit more realistic and a little bit more aligned with what it was trying to do.”
Gascon shouldn’t be the primary celeb to remorse previous social media posts, with James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton all beforehand going through repercussions of previous actions.
All have rebounded, with Gunn getting rehired to direct the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie for Marvel and the upcoming Superman reboot; Noah is internet hosting this weekend’s Grammy Awards and Shelton was a coach on NBC’s The Voice for years.
