‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón issues apology for resurfaced racist tweets

“Emilia Pérez” prima Karla Sofía Gascón has issued an apology for years-old racist tweets that resurfaced connected Thursday and rapidly sparked decease threats being sent to the historic Oscar nominee.

Criticism has been swift for the 52-year-old Best Actress nominee — the archetypal openly transgender performer nominated for an acting Oscar — who successful 1 controversial tweet from 2020 suggested a prohibition against Islam and “religions that spell against European values and interruption quality rights.”

In different troubling tweets that contributed to circulate Friday, Gascón bemoaned the migration of “more and much Muslims” successful her autochthonal Spain and referred to George Floyd arsenic “a cause addict and a hustler.” One since-deleted tweet reportedly invoked Hitler to marque a constituent astir radical and sex inequality.

In effect to the backlash, Gascón issued a lengthy connection to The Hollywood Reporter, apologizing “if anyone has ever felt offended” and attributing immoderate of her tweets to “ignorance oregon axenic mistake.”

“I americium a quality being who besides made, makes and volition marque mistakes from which I volition learn. I americium not perfect,” she said.

But Gascón besides defended herself, saying she has fought for “each and each 1 of the minorities successful this satellite and supported state of religion and immoderate enactment against racism and homophobia.”

She said she’s not liable for her words being taken retired of discourse nor however others construe what she says, adding that she hopes to 1 time “have the accidental to springiness a much extended explanation.”

Though a favorite to triumph Best Picture, “Emilia Pérez” is already arguable for its portrayal of the transgender acquisition and Mexican culture. The Spanish-language Netflix philharmonic is the most-nominated movie astatine this year’s Academy Awards.