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The nominated at Oscars Karla Sofía Gascón, the star of “Emilia Pérez”, remains in the race for the best actress despite the controversy on offensive publications on social networks.
In an interview with Juan Carlos Arciniegas de CNN, Gascón, who marked the story last month as the first openly transgender actress nominated for an Oscar in an actor category, once again offered him “the most sincere of apologies to all the people who felt offended ”.
“I cannot move from an Oscar appointment because I have not committed any crime and I didn’t hurt anyone. I am neither racist nor nothing that all these people have tried to make others believe, ”told CNN.
The controversy occurred after journalist Sarah Hagi shared screenshots of the former public media audiences in Gascón, in which she criticized Muslim culture, the death of George Floyd and the Oscar management.
Gascón, who disabled his account on X after the controversy, apologized this week for his messages. “I want to approach the conversation around my former social media publications that have caused damage,” Gascón said in a press release shared with CNN.
“As a member of a marginalized community, I know that it suffers too well and deeply regrets having caused pain. All my life, I fought for a better world. I believe that light will always triumph over the darkness.
In one of the articles, originally written in Spanish, Gascón commented on the Floyd affair, who died in 2020 after a meeting with the police in Minneapolis. “I really believe that very few cared about George Floyd, a drug addict,” she wrote in part.
The actress also criticized the 2021 Oscar ceremony, held in the middle of the COVVI-19 pandemic. “The #OSCARS are more and more like an independent and vindictive award ceremony, I did not know if I watched an Afro-Korean festival, a demonstration of Black Lives Matter, or March 8” She published at the time.
Gascón is nominated for an Oscar for the best actress for her role in “Emilia Pérez”, a musical and criminal drama Netflix which tells the story of a Mexican drug trafficker looking for gender realloring surgery, which also aroused great controversy, especially in Mexico.
Jacques Audiard, the French director of “Emilia Pérez”, defended the film in an interview with CNN in Español in January, saying: “If there are things that seem scandalous to Mexicans in” Emilia “, I excuse”.
