NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of of the film “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her previous posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that known as George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”
“As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” the actor stated in an announcement by way of Netflix, the place her movie will be streamed. “All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider gentle will all the time overcome darkness.”
Gascón made historical past as the primary transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for finest actress, serving to make “Emilia Pérez” essentially the most nominated movie going into subsequent month’s present. Netflix will probably be hoping the controversy does not derail the movie’s Oscar possibilities.
Previous posts from Gascon’s account on Twitter resurfaced this week, some going way back to 2016, that took intention at Muslims’ costume, language and tradition in her native Spain. She additionally advised that Islam be banned.
And fewer than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascón provided her evaluation of Floyd as a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.
Gascón was an everyday in Mexican telenovelas earlier than transitioning in 2018. In “Emilia Pérez,” she performs each a menacing cartel kingpin and the lady who emerges after the kingpin fakes his personal dying, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to assist her reunite along with her spouse (Selena Gomez) and their kids.
Previous tweets have come again to hang-out celebrities earlier than, embrace James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton. All have rebounded, with Gunn getting rehired to direct the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie for Marvel and the upcoming “Superman” reboot; Noah is internet hosting this weekend’s Grammy Awards and Shelton was for years a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”
