Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascon arrives for the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ fifteenth Annual Governors Awards on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2024. Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP
Actor Karla Sofia Gascon appeared to step again Friday from the Oscar marketing campaign for her hit Netflix narco-musical “Emilia Perez” after her offensive previous social media posts hit its probabilities of glory.
Gascon, the primary transgender lady nominated for finest actress, performs a Mexican cartel boss within the film, which received a document variety of Oscar nominations for a foreign-language movie.
The 52-year-old stated she hoped “my silence will permit the movie to be appreciated for what it’s, a lovely ode to like and distinction.”
Final week’s unearthing of previous posts by the Spanish star denigrating Islam and African American George Floyd has unleashed a scandal that has harmed her repute and the movie.
Gascon stated she made the choice after the film’s French director Jacques Audiard this week known as the posts “inexcusable” and “completely hateful.”
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“I made a decision, for the movie, for Jacques, for the forged, for the unbelievable crew who deserves it, for the attractive journey all of us had collectively, to let the work discuss for itself,” Gascon wrote on Instagram.
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“I sincerely apologize to everybody who has been harm alongside the best way,” added the Spaniard, who was writing in English.
Gascon stars as a drug cartel boss who transitions to life as a girl and turns her again on crime within the extremely uncommon musical thriller.
The largely Spanish-language film filmed in France and set in Mexico was nominated for 13 Oscars, 11 BAFTAs — Britain’s equal to the Oscars — and 12 Cesars in France.
It picked up 4 Golden Globes in January, together with for finest comedy or musical, and received a number of prizes eventually 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition.
Earlier than the scandal broke, Gascon was thought-about a frontrunner for finest actress on the Oscars and pundits seen the movie as a powerful contender for the perfect image award.
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Hollywood commerce retailers had reported that distributor Netflix, which was banking on “Emilia Perez” for its first finest image Oscar, had dropped her from its marketing campaign and distanced itself from the perfect actress nominee.
