Karla Sofía Gascón Comes Out Swinging After Tweet Storm Derailed Her ‘Emilia Pérez’ Oscar Hopes: “It’s Clear There Was A Campaign Against Me”
deadline.comAwards season might be done, but it’s clear that Karla Sofía Gascón still feels raw about her chances of Oscar glory being dashed by her historical social media rants.
The Emilia Pérez star was on course to make history as the first openly transgender actress to win an Academy Award when journalist Sarah Hagi uncovered her questionable X/Twitter missives dating back to 2016.
In posts that went unnoticed by Netflix, Gascón wrote that Islam was a “hotbed of infection for humanity,” described Floyd as a “drug addict swindler” and said that the 2021 Oscars were an “ugly” “Afro-Korean festival” after triumphs for Minari and Judas and the Black Messiah.
She also pondered that she does not “understand so much about the world war against Hitler, he simply had his opinion about Jews,” and regularly used a Spanish word that translates as “faggot” in English.
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