Karla Sofía Gascón, the protagonist of the film Emilia Pérez and first trans actress to be nominated for an Oscar, apologizes for their old messages on social networks in which Denigrated Islam and in which he called George Floyd “Drug Addict and Skator”.
“As someone from a marginalized community, I know this suffering Too well, “said the actress in a statement through Netflix and defended that she deeply laments what happened.
In this way, the interpreter wanted to apologize to “those who have caused pain.” “All my life I have fought for a better world. I think that light will always succeed over darkness,” he added.
Gascon made history as the first trans interpreter to be nominated for the best actress, contributing to the fact that Emilia Pérez Be the most nominated film for the next month’s gala. Netflix hopes that the controversy will not disrupt the possibilities of the film in the Oscars.
The controversy tweets
This week they have reappeared ancient messages from the Gascón account on Twitter, some of them 2016in which he pointed to the clothing, language and culture of Muslims in his native Spain. It also suggested that Islam was prohibited.
“Islam is becoming a focus of infection For humanity that must be cured urgently, “he said too.” How many times the history will have to expel the Moors of Spain … we have not yet realized what this threat of civilizations means that constantly attack freedom and coherence of the individual. It’s not about racism, it’s about Islam. “
In August 2020 he made fun of the bulos that were being generated around the Covid vaccine, but he did it by saying that “The Chinese vaccine, apart from the mandatory chipcomes with two spring rolls, a cat that moves the hand, two plastic flowers “…
Less than a month after George Floyd, a black man, was killed by a white minneapolis police in 2020, which caused a national recognition of police brutality and racism, Gascon offered his Floyd evaluation as Floyd as A drug addict for which “very few people worried.”
He also said about the attacks vandalism to statues of Christopher Columbus in Latin America: “These stupid, these tarades, children of slaves, immigrants and murderers of tribes, are the great ignorant of history. They throw stones against the statue of a man (Christopher Columbus) that he was looking for a route to the Indies and that he was only guilty that that crowd was born there. “
Karla Sofía Gascón’s career
Gascón was a regular of Mexican soap operas before making the transition in 2018. Emilia Pérezhe plays both a threatening boss of a cartel and Emilia Pérez, the woman who emerges after the capo simulates her own death. Years later, he contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to help her meet her wife (Selena Gómez) and her children.
Old tweets have tormented celebrities in the past, such as James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton. All have recovered: Gunn was hired again to direct the third film of Galaxy Guardians for Marvel and the next restart of Superman; Noah will be the presenter of the Grammy this weekend and Shelton was for years Coach in The voice of the NBC.
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