‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón says her controversial tweets were taken out of context: “I am not racist”

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Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón has said her controversial series of tweets were taken out of context, stressing that she is “not racist”.Earlier this week, the actor apologised after it emerged that she had posted a series of tweets showing controversial opinions on Muslims, the 2020 murder of George Floyd and the Oscars.

In one 2020 post, she posted a picture of a Muslim family with a woman in a burka, describing the clothing tradition as “deeply disgusting”.In another, shared a few days after George Floyd was killed by a police officer, she wrote “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler”.

In 2021, she also wrote about the Oscars: “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.

Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala”.A post shared by Karla Sofía Gascón (@karsiagascon)Gascón, who has now deleted her X account, became the first transgender woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination earlier this month for her role as the title character in Jacques Audiard’s tale about a Mexican lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) who is hired to help a cartel drug lord (Gascón) with her transition.Now, the Spanish actor has written a lengthy Instagram post in which she reiterates a previous apology and seeks to argue that her comments have been “taken out of context”.Writing in Spanish (translation via Deadline), she said: “What I would like to do first is offer my sincerest apologies to those who have felt harmed for my way of expressing myself at any stage of my life.