Karla Sofia Gascn nixed from Emilia Perez Oscars campaign after troubling posts resurface: report
“Emilia Pérez” is trying out an unusual new award season strategy: Ditch Emilia Pérez.Karla Sofia Gascón, the titular star of “Emilia Pérez” and first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar, will no longer be involved in awards campaigning for the movie, according to a new report.The controversial 52-year-old Best Actress nominee came under fire last week for a series of resurfaced, offensive posts on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that have been decried as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic. Because of the backlash, sources told The Hollywood Reporter the musical film’s distributor Netflix will not have Gascón fly from Spain to Los Angeles this week to attend the AFI Awards on Thursday, Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday or the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.She is also a recipient of a Santa Barbara Film Festival Virtuoso Award, which will additionally honor the likes of Kieran Culkin, Ariana Grande, Mikey Madison and Gascon’s co-star Selena Gomez.The actress won’t show up there either.THR said that some other Virtuoso honorees have refused to make the trip if Gascón was also onstage.
Actors have indicated “that they might have to cancel their participation if she did not cancel hers, out of concern that things could get very uncomfortable with her there,” the outlet said.It’s a huge shift from a month ago when Gascón triumphantly took the stage of the Beverly Hilton hotel to accept the Golden Globe Award for best motion picture – musical or comedy.“Emilia Pérez” is nominated for 13 Academy Awards — the most of any film this year — and was considered by many pundits to be the Best Picture frontrunner before this week. Now its odds have plummeted.In a now-deleted social media post in Spanish, Gascón said Islam was “becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.” In 2020, she also called George Floyd a “drug addict swindler.” In another, she ...