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Mexico City, Mexico – 15 January 2025
1. Wide shot "Emilia Pérez" director Jacques Audiard, second from left, and main stars Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz, during press conference
2. Medium shot Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz during press conference
3. Medium shot Jacques Audiard and Karla Sofía Gascón
4. Various shots Karla Sofía Gascón posing for photographers
5. Close-up Karla Sofía Gascón speaks to reporter
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Palm Springs, Calif. – 3 January 2025
6. Wide shot; zoom to medium Karla Sofía Gascón posing at Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Los Angeles – 11 December 2024
7. Medium shot; pull-out Karla Sofía Gascón poses at Out100 event
8. Medium shot Karla Sofía Gascón speaks to reporter at Out100 event
STORYLINE:
Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”
“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.”
Gascón made history as the first transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for best actress, helping make “Emilia Pérez” 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.
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, Gascón offered her assessment of Floyd as a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.
Gascón was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning in 2018. In “Emilia Pérez,” she plays both a menacing cartel kingpin and the woman who emerges after the kingpin fakes his own death, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) 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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