Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón is beneath hearth after outdated tweets uncovered a variety of troubling opinions on topics together with Islam and George Floyd.
The Spanish actor, who just lately grew to become the primary ever overtly transgender individual to obtain an appearing nomination on the Oscars, has since deleted quite a lot of tweets after customers, together with author Sarah Hagi, uncovered them. Selection and the Hollywood Reporter have since reported the information and translated older posts.
Gascón, initially in Spanish, known as Floyd “a martyr hero” weeks after his loss of life and wrote: “I really imagine that only a few individuals ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, however his loss of life has served to focus on as soon as once more that there are those that nonetheless take into account Black individuals to be monkeys with out rights and people who take into account the police to be murderers. All flawed.”
She adopted up by writing that it “is not a query of racism however social courses that really feel threatened by one another”.
In November 2020, she additionally wrote about “increasingly more Muslims in Spain” earlier than including: “Each time I’m going to select up my daughter from faculty there are extra girls with their hair coated and their skirts right down to their heels. Possibly subsequent yr as a substitute of English we’ll have to show Arabic.”
In one other publish, she wrote: “Till we ban religions that go towards European values and violate human rights, corresponding to Islam, beneath the safety of freedom of worship, we won’t finish a part of the large downside we face. Religion manipulates those that cling to religion.”
In a tweet from 2016, she additionally wrote: “Islam is turning into a hotbed for an infection for humanity that urgently should be cured.”
In a publish concerning the Oscars after the 2021 ceremony the place Nomadland took house greatest image, she wrote: “An increasing number of the #Oscars are trying like a ceremony for impartial 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. Aside from that, an unpleasant, ugly gala.”
Gascón, who shared the perfect actress prize finally yr’s Cannes movie pageant along with her co-stars, has but to make any remark together with Netflix who purchased Emilia Pérez quickly after.
She just lately made headlines for criticising the social media workforce concerned along with her fellow greatest actress Oscar nominee, I’m Nonetheless Right here star Fernanda Torres. “I’ve by no means, at any level, stated something dangerous about Fernanda Torres or her film,” she stated in an interview. “Nonetheless, there are individuals working with Fernanda Torres tearing me and Emilia Pérez down. That speaks extra about their film than mine.”
She later clarified that it wasn’t meant to be an assault on Torres however on “toxicity and violent hate speech on social media”.
Emilia Pérez has been nominated for 13 Oscars, a report for a movie not within the English language but has confronted criticism from each the LGBTQ+ group and in Mexico, the place it’s set. It tells the story of a cartel boss transitioning into a girl.
Advocacy group Glaad known as it “a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans girl” and that it represented “a step backward” for illustration whereas the movie has been accused of perpetuating Mexican stereotypes.
French director Jacques Audiard has since apologised: “If there are issues that appear stunning in Emilia Pérez then I’m sorry … Cinema doesn’t present solutions, it solely asks questions. However perhaps the questions in Emilia Pérez are incorrect.”
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