Conan O’Brien cracks Karla Sofía Gascón joke at Oscars 2025 as controversial actress sits in audience: ‘You tweeted WHAT?’

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Karla Sofía Gascón has entered the Dolby Theatre — and Conan O’Brien couldn’t wait to crack a joke at her expense. Despite the recent controversy, the “Emilia Pérez” star, 52, attended the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, in Los Angeles.The Oscars host poked fun at her almost career-ending saga in his monologue as she was sitting in the star-studded audience.“I loved ‘Anora.’ I really did,” O’Brien said of the Best Picture nominee. “‘Anora’ uses the f word 479 times.

That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist: ‘You tweeted WHAT?'”Follow The Post’s live updates from the Oscars 2025 for winners, red carpet pics and moreAs the audience slow-clapped, O’Brien danced a jig and added, “Karla Sofía Gascón is here tonight and Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”The crowd laughed as the camera panned to the star, who smiled and bowed her head in appreciation.Gascón is up for Best Actress at the coveted award show, making her the first openly transgender star to be nominated.

Her co-star, Zoe Saldaña, is nominated for Best Supporting Actress.“Emilia Pérez” is leading the 2025 Oscars race with 13 nominations, coming up only one nod shy of tying the record for most-ever nominations for a movie.

The project also marks the most-ever nods for a film predominantly in a non-English language.The Netflix musical thriller follows a Mexican drug cartel leader (Gascón) who transitions into a woman.In January, Gascón’s old tweets were resurfaced by writer and X user Sarah Hagi.One of her 2020 tweets, posted in Spanish and translated by USA Today, read: “Sorry, is it just me or are there more Muslims in Spain?