Karla Sofia Gascon apologizes for old tweets, says she is ’deeply sorry to those I have caused pain’


Karla Sofia Gascon apologizes for old tweets, says she is ’deeply sorry to those I have caused pain’

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Published Jan 31, 2025  •  2 minute read

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Karla Sofia Gascon accepts the Best International Feature award for "Emilia Perez" during The Hollywood Critics Association's Astra Creative Arts, Film & TV Awards at Taglyan Complex on December 8, 2024 in Los Angeles. Photo by JC Olivera /Getty Images

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NEW YORK — Karla Sofia Gascon, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Perez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

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“As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” the actor said in a statement via Netflix, where her film can be streamed. “All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”

Gascon made history as the first transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for best actress, helping make “Emilia Perez” the most nominated film going into next month’s show. Netflix will be hoping the controversy doesn’t derail the film’s Oscar chances.

Old posts from Gascon’s account on Twitter resurfaced this week, some going as far back as 2016, that took aim at Muslims’ dress, language and culture in her native Spain. She also suggested that Islam be banned.

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And less than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting a national reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascon offered her assessment of Floyd as a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.

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Gascon was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning in 2018. In “Emilia Perez,” she plays both a menacing cartel kingpin and the woman who emerges after the kingpin fakes his own death, Emilia Perez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldana) to help her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children.

Old tweets have come back to haunt celebrities before, include James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton.

All have rebounded, with Gunn getting rehired to direct the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” film for Marvel and the upcoming “Superman” reboot; Noah is hosting this weekend’s Grammy Awards and Shelton was for years a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”

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