Emilia Pérez star faces backlash with resurfaced racist tweets amid ‘Oscar violation’

Karla Sofia Gascón, the Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star, is facing backlash for resurfaced posts connected X targeting Muslims, George Floyd and Oscar diversity.

The 52-year-old actor, who made past arsenic the archetypal retired trans idiosyncratic to beryllium nominated for an Academy Award successful the champion histrion category, is facing mounting disapproval for historical – and caller – comments.

The histrion roseate to planetary fame arsenic the titular quality successful Netflix’s acclaimed movie philharmonic besides starring Selena Gomez and Zoë Saldaña astir a Mexican cause brag who starts afresh aft transitioning into a woman.

The 13-time Academy Award-nominated movie movie itself has been dubbed by immoderate viewers arsenic ‘one of the worst films ever’ with concerns implicit its practice of Mexican civilization and the trans community.

Now – successful the lead-up to the Oscars connected March 2 – the main prima has fallen into blistery water.

Earlier this week, she was forced to support comments made astir chap nominee, I’m Still Here star, Fernanda Torres.

Now she is being slammed for historical tweets against Muslims, disparaging the Black Lives Matter question and pushing backmost against diverseness astatine the Oscars ceremony.

Shortly aft the interrogation sparked discourse, civilization critic Sarah Hagi posted screenshots of tweets written by Gascón, nether her X relationship @karsiagascon, that telephone Islam a ‘hotbed of infection’ and radical from aggregate faiths ‘morons that interruption quality rights.’

One station from November 22, 2020, reads: ‘I’m Sorry, Is it conscionable my content oregon is determination much Muslims successful Spain? Every clip I spell to prime up my girl from schoolhouse determination are much women with their hairsbreadth covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next twelvemonth alternatively of English we’ll person to thatch Arabic,’ per a translation by Variety.

Another station from September 2020 which featured an representation of a pistillate wearing a burqa, wrote: ‘Islam is marvellous, without immoderate machismo. Women are respected, and erstwhile they are truthful respected they are near with a small squared spread connected their faces for their eyes to beryllium disposable and their mouths, but lone if she behaves.

‘Although they formal this mode for their ain enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY.’

In August 2021, she formed the nett wide, writing: ‘I americium truthful sick of truthful overmuch of this s**t, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of each the fucking beliefs of morons that interruption quality rights.’

Further posts past resurfaced including 1 astir murdered Black antheral George Floyd, whose decease sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, successful which she calls him a ‘drug addict swindler’.

The station continued: ‘…His decease has served to erstwhile again show that determination are radical who inactive see achromatic radical to beryllium monkeys Without rights and see policemen to beryllium assassins. They’re each wrong.’

Finally, during the 2021 Oscars ceremony, held during the Covid pandemic, Gascón wrote: ‘More and much the #Oscars are looking similar a ceremonial for autarkic and protestation films, I didn’t cognize if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter objection oregon the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, disfigured gala.’

Nomadland secured the Oscar for champion representation that twelvemonth with films similar Minari and The Trial of the Chicago 7 besides nominated.

Many radical person expressed their disgust astatine the Spanish actor’s views.

‘Curious astir however the emilia perez formed and academy voters volition respond to karla sofia gascon’s islamophobic and vile tweets.

‘The information that these tweets span years, and determination are truthful galore of them, beryllium that these are her accordant and blatant beliefs,’ @bymeg wrote connected X.

‘Sorry but this pistillate doesn’t merit an Oscar,’ @zahrarahim commented.

‘They lowkey request to rescind her information …’ @virtualngels shared.

The immense bulk of Gascón’s criticised posts person since been deleted from her account.

Metro has reached retired to The Academy, Netflix and Karla Sofia Gascón’s representatives for remark but has not instantly heard back.

What did Karla Sofia Gascón accidental astir chap Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres?

In an edited clip from an interrogation with the Brazillian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Gascon seemingly aimed occurrence astatine Torres’ run for the Oscars.

After criticising societal media teams for ‘trying to diminish [Emilia Perez’s teams] enactment she continued:’You don’t request to teardrop down someone’s enactment to item another’s. I person never, astatine immoderate point, said thing atrocious astir Fernanda Torres oregon her movie.

‘However, determination are radical moving with Fernanda Torres tearing maine and ‘Emilia Pérez’ down. That speaks much astir their movie than mine.’

Although determination were questions implicit whether this violated Oscar rules by straight speaking astir different nominee, Metro understands determination is nary promotional regularisation violation.

Gascon released a connection to the work aboriginal clarifying her comments, saying she was not talking astir those ‘directly associated with Torres’.

‘I americium an tremendous instrumentality of Fernanda Torres and it has been fantastic getting to cognize her implicit the past fewer months.

‘In my caller comments, I was referencing the toxicity and convulsive hatred code connected societal media that I sadly proceed to experience. Fernanda has been a fantastic ally, and nary 1 straight associated with her has been thing but supportive and hugely generous,’ she said.

Elsewhere successful the viral interview, she described Torres arsenic a ‘wonderful pistillate and an astonishing actress’ and congratulated her for the Golden Globe victory.

Earlier this week Torres besides released an apology for wearing blackface in a sketch 17 years ago.

The Oscars 2025 has faced respective troubles implicit caller weeks. Earlier this period wildfires successful Los Angeles caused a hold successful the nominations and figures specified arsenic Stephen King called for the ceremonial to beryllium cancelled.

The Brutalist manager Brady Corbet was past week made to merchandise a statement astir the usage of AI successful the champion representation frontrunner aft 1 of the film’s editors explained AI bundle was utilized for Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent successful 1 scene.

As good arsenic accusations of GenerativeAI usage successful 1 of the film’s architectural sequences which Corbet has denied.

Anora besides faced disapproval aft some filmmaker Sean Baker and pb prima Mikey Madison explained they did not usage an intimacy coordinator during filming.

The Oscars volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, March 2.

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