The star of Emilia Pérez has apologized after old social media posts surfaced, just a week after she made history as the first openly trans actress to land an Oscar acting nod…
Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, who starred in the Oscar-nominated film Emilia Pérez and recently made history as the first openly trans actress to land an Academy Award acting nod, is offering an apology after old, derogatory posts found on X, formerly Twitter, resurfaced.
“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón said in a statement from Netflix. “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well, and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life, I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Many of the posts in question, which were originally written in Spanish by Gascón and shared by writer Sarah Hagi in a series of screenshots with Google translations on X, criticized the way Muslims dress, George Floyd and the Oscars.
“Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured,” she wrote in a post from 2016. Another old post claims that Islam is “incompatible with Western values.”
“Honestly, I think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider Black people to be … without rights and consider policemen to be assassins,” another old post read. “They’re all wrong.”
The actress also posted critically about the 2021 Academy Awards, which was held after the Covid-19 pandemic.
“More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M,” Gascón wrote in an old post. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
Other old posts from Gascón that resurfaced online attacked China, referring to COVID vaccines as “the Chinese vaccine, [which] apart from the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 telephone lines and one euro for your first controlled purchase.”
The dates of the tweets range from 2016 to the early 2020s. Gascón deactivated her account on X after online users resurfaced the posts and the backlash began and she issued an apology.
On Thursday, January 23, 2025 Gascón made history when she became the first openly trans person ever to be nominated in an acting category at the Academy Awards. The 52-year-old actress is recognized for her leading role in Emilia Pérez, in the category of Best Actress. Jacques Audiard’s genre-blending queer crime musical is nominated for a number of Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Audiard), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International Feature.
The 97th annual Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
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