Zoe Saldaña on ‘Emilia Pérez’ co-star Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive tweets: “It makes me really sad”

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Zoe Saldaña has spoken out about a series of offensive tweets from her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, saying they make her “really sad”.Earlier this week, Gascón 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”.“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón said this week in a statement to Variety. “As someone in a marginalised community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain.