Outdated social media posts from Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week that denigrated Islam and that known as George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”
NEW YORK — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the film “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her outdated posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that known as George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”
“As somebody in a marginalized neighborhood, I do know this struggling all too effectively and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve brought on ache,” the actor mentioned in an announcement by way of Netflix, the place her movie may be streamed. “All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider mild will at all times conquer darkness.”
Gascón made historical past as the primary transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for greatest actress, serving to make “Emilia Pérez” the most nominated movie going into subsequent month’s present. Netflix might be hoping the controversy does not derail the movie’s Oscar possibilities.
Outdated posts from Gascon’s account on Twitter resurfaced this week, some going way back to 2016, that took goal at Muslims’ costume, language and tradition in her native Spain. She additionally prompt that Islam be banned.
And fewer than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascón provided her evaluation of Floyd as a drug addict who “only a few folks ever cared” for.
Gascón was an everyday in Mexican telenovelas earlier than transitioning in 2018. In “Emilia Pérez,” she performs each a menacing cartel kingpin and the lady who emerges after the kingpin fakes his personal dying, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to assist her reunite together with her spouse (Selena Gomez) and their kids.
Outdated tweets have come again to hang-out celebrities earlier than, embody James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton. 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 for years a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”
