All About the Controversy Surrounding 'Emilia Pérez' Star Karla Sofía Gascón
The cast of 'Emilia Pérez' is in disarray following the discovery of offensive tweets by its lead actress, Karla Sofía Gascón. Here's why director Jacques Audiard has "severed ties" with the actress.
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Despite making history as the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Oscar for her role in Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofía Gascón is in hot water after some of her old bigoted tweets were resurfaced by Canadian journalist Sarah Hagi. Shared by Hagi via screenshots posted to X, the tweets took aim at topics ranging from Islam, which she labeled "deeply disgusting to humanity," to the murder of George Floyd, whom she called a "drug addict swindler."
Gascón has since apologized three times, twice via statements given to The Hollywood Reporter, on January 30 and January 31, and again in an on-air interview with CNN en Español. At the same time, she continues to defend herself on Instagram, blaming her fall from grace on "cancel culture."
“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón wrote in her first apology. “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Gascón then deactivated her X account, attributing her decision to the fact that she had been "threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion." Here's where her Oscar bid stands—and how her Emilia Pérez co-stars have reacted—since the scandal first erupted on January 30.
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After becoming the first openly transgender woman to win the Cannes best actress award, Gascón lost the category to Demi Moore at the Golden Globes. She did, however, give a moving speech when Emilia Pérez won for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical.
“I chose this [dress] color tonight, the Buddhist color, because I have a message of hope for you: the light always wins over darkness,” Gascón said. “I have a lot of things to say to you because you can maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you never can take away our soul, our resistance, or our identity. And I want to say to you, raise your voice and say, ‘I am who I am, not who you want.'”
Her words were quickly overshadowed, however, when news of the scandal broke. At that point, Emilia Pérez had already garnered 13 Oscar nominations, including a historic Best Actress nom for Gascón. Netflix subsequently dropped the actress from their Oscars campaign. Gascón, meanwhile, refuses to withdraw from Oscar contention.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in early Februrary, Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard distanced himself from the actress: "I haven’t spoken to her, and I don’t want to," he told the outlet.
“She is in a self-destructive approach that I can’t interfere in, and I really don’t understand why she’s continuing," he continued. "Why is she harming herself? Why? I don’t understand it, and what I don’t understand about this too is why she’s harming people who were very close to her."
He went on, “I’m thinking in this thing of how hurting others, of how she’s hurting the crew and all these people who worked so incredibly hard on this film. I’m thinking of myself, I’m thinking of Zoe [Saldaña] and Selena [Gomez]."
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Speaking of Zoe Saldaña, the actress offered her thoughts on Gascón during a Q&A in London promoting Emilia Pérez. Sitting alongside Audiard and the film's songwriters-slash-composers Camille and Clément Ducol, Saldaña said that the events of the past month made her "really sad."
"I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group," she continued. "I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part, that is a part, of this film, and my experience and my interactions with them was about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it just saddens me.”
That said, she still believes that the film will have a positive impact. “It saddens me that we are having to face this setback right now. But I’m happy that you’re all here and that you’re all still showing up for Emilia because the message that this film has is so powerful and the change that it can bring forward to communities that are marginalized day in and day out is important. And all that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. That’s all we can say right now. Thank you.”
According to the BBC, Gascón is no longer expected to attend several scheduled events, including the AFI Awards luncheon, the Critics Choice Awards, the Directors Guild of America Awards, the Producers Guild of America Awards, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
In a post on Instagram on February 6, Gascón said she would remain quiet. She wrote, "I decided, for the film, for Jacques, for the cast, for the incredible crew who deserves it, for the beautiful adventure we all had together, to let the work talk for itself, hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference."
It is unclear whether Gascón will attend the Oscars.
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