The star of “Emilia Pérez” and nominated at the Oscars Karla Sofía Gascón published apologies after his publications on social networks expressing controversial opinions on Muslims, George Floyd and Oscar diversity resurfaced this week.
“I would like to recognize the conversation around my former social media publications that caused injury,” she said in a statement Variety. “As a person in a marginalized community, I know too well what suffers too well and I am deeply sorry for those I have caused pain. All my life, I fought for a better world. I believe that light will always triumph over the darkness.
An article of 2020 which was translated independently by VarietyAttached to the photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant, including a woman in a burka, reads as follows: “Islam is wonderful, without machismo. Women are respected, and when they are so respected, they find themselves with a little square hole on their faces so that their eyes are visible and their mouths, but only if they behave. Although they dress in this way for their own pleasure. What a disgusting depth of humanity. »»
In another article in 2021, Gascón wrote: “I’m so fed up with this shit, Islam, Christianity, Catholicism and all the whores of Cretins beliefs that violate human rights. »»
An article from 2020, shared only a few days after George Floyd was killed by a police officer and inspired demonstrations in the United States, she wrote: “I really think that very few people cared about George Floyd, a crooked Toxicoma, but his death served once again that there are people who always consider blacks as rights without rights and consider the police as assassins. They are all wrong.
One of his articles on the 2021 Oscars can be read 8m. Apart from that, a ugly and ugly gala.
Last week, Gascón became the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar. Previously, she became the first transgender woman to win the prize for best actress at the Cannes festival (an honor she shared with her co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz) and was the first trans woman Nominated for cinema at the Golden Globes. It is represented by UTA.
