After scandalous tweets
Netflix bans Gascón from “Emilia Pérez” tour
With 13 nominations, "Emilia Pérez" is one of the favorites for the 97th Oscar Gala. Spanish leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón has had particularly high hopes so far - but these hopes have now been dashed due to problematic tweets that have been unearthed. Netflix has already disinvited Gascón from the promotional tour.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Although she herself apologized, she denied racist and Islamophobic misconduct.
In the narco-musical "Emilia Pérez", Gascón plays a Mexican drug lord who wants to start a new life as a trans woman. Her performance made her the first trans woman to be nominated for an Oscar. She has already been celebrated in the media as an example of diversity and against discrimination. However, this promptly changed when old racist and Islamophobic tweets surfaced.
Gascón sees herself misinterpreted
In 2016, for example, she described Islam on her social media as an "infectious breeding ground for humanity" that "urgently needs to be cured" due to its oppression of women. She called the African-American George Floyd, who was killed by police officers and whose murder triggered the Black Lives Matter movement, a "junkie" and "crook".
"I am only responsible for what I say. Not for what others interpret from my words", explained Sofía Gascón in an interview with the daily newspaper El País on Tuesday.
It is true that many of her tweets were taken out of context in the media. But the controversy is there and political correctness and sensitivity towards minorities play a particularly important role in Hollywood, which could well influence the Academy members' voting behavior.
Excluded from Netflix promotional tour
The polemical tweets by the Spanish leading actress could even cause the Oscar chances for the entire film to falter. The streaming service Netflix, which produced "Emilia Pérez", has already reacted and excluded Sofía Gascón from the current promotional tour in the USA, which is now only taking place with the two other actresses Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.
However, despite the controversy, the Spaniard does not want to give up her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. On her social media channels, she apologized to anyone who may have felt offended or hurt by her language and comments. "As a member of a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well," the Spanish actress wrote in an official statement.
However, she denied racist and Islamophobic misconduct. "All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe that light will always triumph over darkness."
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