“Emilia Pérez” star and Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is beneath hearth for a sequence of unearthed tweets by which she spewed hateful rhetoric towards quite a few marginalized individuals and communities.
Her posts, a few of them from as early as 2018, included racist remarks about Black individuals and Muslims, and a remark in protection of Adolf Hitler, who Gascón mentioned “simply had his opinion of the Jews.”
She additionally described George Floyd, the Black man murdered by Minneapolis police in 2020, as “a drug addict and a scammer,” in accordance with a HuffPost translation.
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After her previous posts got here to gentle on Thursday, Gascón deleted her account on X, previously Twitter, and apologized in a press release, The Related Press stories.
“As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” mentioned Gascón, who’s transgender, in a press release despatched to the AP by way of Netflix, the place her movie may be streamed.
“All my life I have fought for a better world,” she continued. “I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
The revelation of Gascón’s tweets arrives amid an Oscars race the place she, and the film she stars in, had been already entrance and middle. The Spanish-born performer made historical past earlier this month as the primary brazenly trans performer to be nominated for the Academy Award for greatest actress. Her historic nod is only one amongst a whopping 13 Oscar nominations for “Emilia Pérez” ― which makes the controversial movie, directed by Jacques Audiard and co-starring Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez, the most-nominated non-English-language movie in Academy historical past.
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Gascón’s social media historical past got here to gentle on Thursday, when journalist Sarah Hagi posted screenshots of a number of tweets Gascón printed between 2020 and 2021 attacking Muslims.
One in every of Gascón’s tweets consists of a crude cartoon of a Muslim man weeping.
“New attack in France, decapitated people in Nice by one of the retarded people that follow Allah,” she wrote in Spanish, in accordance with a translation by HuffPost. “How many times are we going to have to expel these madmen from Europe to realize that their religion is INCOMPATIBLE with Western values? We do not learn.”
After Hagi’s preliminary publish, different tweets started to return to gentle throughout X.
In one tweet printed shortly after Floyd’s homicide — which sparked protests throughout the U.S. and all over the world towards police brutality and systemic racism — Gascón determined to precise her ideas on the tragedy.
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“I honestly think very few people really cared about George Floyd. He was a drug addict and a scammer,” Gascón wrote, as translated by HuffPost. “But after his death has served to once again to highlight that there are people who still think Black monkeys have no rights and who consider police are killers. They are so wrong.”
In one other tweet from 2018, Gascón took a stance in protection of a genocidal dictator.
“This is the same old story, ‘black slaves and women go to the kitchen.’ It’s my opinion and it should be respected,” she wrote. “I do not understand why everyone is making a world war against Hitler, he simply had his opinion of the Jews. Well, that’s how the world works.”
Selection additionally translated a number of extra of Gascón’s tweets earlier than they had been deleted. One in every of them included criticism of the 2021 Oscars, the place Daniel Kaluuya, who’s Black, and Youn Yuh-jung, who’s South Korean, gained for greatest supporting actor and greatest supporting actress, respectively.
“More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films,” Gascón wrote, in accordance with Selection’s translation. “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.”
Following the information of Gascón’s tweets and her apology, many individuals are upset that she’s nonetheless within the working to win one in every of Hollywood’s most prestigious awards.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council despatched a press release to The Wrap on Thursday expressing its dismay.
“Deleted or not, these tweets are hurtful, offensive, and shocking, most especially coming from someone who is a member of another vulnerable community,” the group’s assertion reads. “Muslims are part of every community, including the transgender community.”
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“‘European values?’ Does she mean the ones that led to the Holocaust?” the assertion continued. “She needs to immerse herself in Islamic history. When Europe was in the dark age, Muslims were busy discovering math, science, and medical equipment. Learn, woman.”
