International Insider: ‘Emilia’s Awards Chances…; EFM Deals; German Diversity Debate
deadline.comGood afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter after another busy week. Read on. And sign up here. ‘Emilia’s Awards Chances… A week is a long time: Last time I penned this very newsletter we led with the headline ‘Emilia’s Oscar March’.
Not the same story this week. An unprecedented situation has played out over the past seven days during which the initial frontrunner for multiple (and possibly record-breaking) Oscar wins has been seeing its chances go up in smoke.
This is due to Emilia Pérez lead Karla Sofía Gascón’s highly offensive and frankly vile tweets unearthed from several years back, which first emerged late last week.
You’ve likely all seen the tweets, but what has happened since is the film’s maker, co-stars and crew trying to tout the film in spite of, not because of, its lead.
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