Karla Sofía Gascón: The Emilia Pérez Star's Oscar Season Controversy, Explained

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movie musical, Emilia Pérez.Emilia Pérez, which beat Wicked for best musical comedy or musical at the and scored the most Oscar nominations of any film this year, was already at the center of film Twitter discourse when its star's xenophobic and racists tweets resurfaced on the internet.

Here's everything you need to know about Karla Sofía Gascón's potentially Oscar-losing controversy.The Netflix film tells the story of Rita (Zoe Saldaña), a Mexican lawyer hired to help a cartel leader (Gascón) start a new life by faking their death and undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

The film itself was directed by Jacques Audiard, a cis male French man.Though the film's received from Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, and other Hollywood organizations, many believe it mischaracterized every community depicted in the thriller, from to trans women.While Selena Gomez has been for her Spanish, LGBTQ voices have been denouncing the film's depiction of the main character's transition, with GLAAD as a “step backward for trans representation.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Beyond its controversial subjects, the film only received a 19% audience score on .

It also doesn't help that the filmmakers to improve Gascón's vocals, blending her voice with French pop star Camille, per .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Gascón was already facing for her response to the film's LGBTQ critics. “Being LGBTQ, having those labels, does not remove your stupidity, just like heterosexuality does not remove your stupidity,” she told on January 6. "What bothers me is that the people that say things like that just sitting down at home doing nothing.