In the heels of a dust of nominated partisans to the best actress of the Fernanda Torres Oscars, Karla Sofía Gascón catches the heat for fiery snacks that she has published online in recent years, from Islam to George Floyd.
THE Emilia Pérez Star articles on X (formerly Twitter) began to go around early Thursday morning with several users sharing screenshots and critical sockets of Gascón’s opinions. For example, less than a month after George Floyd was murdered in Minnesota in 2020, encouraging rallies at the national scale of Black Lives Matter, Gascón shared a thread summarizing his opinions.
“Let me be right, a guy is trying to pass a counterfeit bill after consuming methamphetamine, a police idiot arrives and goes too far to arrest him, killing him, rushing his family’s life and of his colleagues, and turning the guy with the bill in a hero of the martyr, “she wrote (in Spanish, who was translated here by Google Translate). “I really believe that very few people cared about George Floyd, drug addict and scammer, but his death made it possible to underline that there are those who always consider blacks as monkeys without rights and those who consider the police be murderers. All evil. “”
Later that year, she targeted Muslims in her native Spain.
“Sorry, is it just my impression or are there more and more Muslims in Spain?” Whenever I get my daughter from school, there are more women with their covered hair and skirts to their heels, “she posted on November 23, 2020.” Maybe the ‘Next year instead of English, we will have to teach Arabic. “
With regard to Islam, it suggested a prohibition: “Until the ban on religions that go against European values and violate human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of Freedom of worship, we will not finish part of the enormous problem we are facing. Faith manipulates those who cling to faith. »»
Vanity The writer Chris Murphy weighed by commenting on Gascón’s messages on Floyd: “You cannot invent this thing … For the love of God, do not give this woman an Oscar !!!” Gascón entered history as a first trans performer to be nominated as the best actress while her film, from the writer-director Jacques Audiard, dominated the field with 13 nominations for Netflix.
Shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, some of Gascón’s messages started to disappear, including that of Floyd who was still alive earlier in the day. The Hollywood Reporter contacted the representatives of Gascón and Netflix to comment. Many users have expressed their surprise, not that the Spanish actress franc published her thoughts in the first place – freedom of expression is protected – but in the middle of a seasonal race of rewards still heated, the messages remained on the site as long as they would. The main competitors like Gascón are always surrounded by teams of advertising and strategists who are experts in the fields of media training and the perception of the public.
The whirlwind comes after Gascón suggested in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper that online forces are at work to try to dirty it and the Emilia Pérez team. “What I don’t like are social media teams – people who work with these people – trying to reduce our work, like me and my film, because it does not lead anywhere. You don’t need to demolish someone’s work to highlight another. In no case did I say anything harm about Fernanda Torres or his film. However, there are people who work with Fernanda Torres tearing me and Emilia Pérez down. It talks more about their film than mine. »»
Once the comments have become viral, countless X users have marked the Academy of Arts and Cinema Sciences claiming that Gascón’s comments have violated the rules of the Academy to make disparaged remarks from another competitor. However, the Academy concluded that no rule had been raped – Gascón did not comment or disparaged the performance or the film by Torres – but Gascón published a declaration to Variety To clarify the situation.
“I am a huge fan of Fernanda Torres and it has been wonderful to know her in recent months,” Gascón said in the press release. “In my recent comments, I was referring to the toxicity and speech of violent hatred on social networks that I unfortunately continue to live. Fernanda was a wonderful ally, and no one directly associated with her was anything but favorable and extremely generous. »»
In a recent cover story with THRGascón raised the shoulders of online vitriol that she receives as a transgender actress. “Social media is a lie,” she said. “The reality is on the street. These are people who come to tell you thank you for telling you.
