“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón didn’t thoughts a bit teasing throughout Sunday’s Academy Awards.
The Finest Actress nominee seemed again at her Oscars expertise, and host Conan O’Brien’s jokes about her, in a put up on Instagram on Monday morning.
“Thanks to the members of @theacademy for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala,” she wrote in her native language Spanish. “I really liked it, very entertaining and funny, especially its fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien.”
The Kimmel point out was a wink at O’Brien telling Gascón in his Oscars monologue, “Karla, if you’re going to tweet about the Oscars, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”
Moments earlier, the previous late night time host ribbed the Spanish star over her awards season controversy.
“I loved ‘Anora.’ I really did. Yeah,” he informed audiences. “True story. Little fact for you, ‘Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times. That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist.”
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Gascón got here below fireplace earlier this 12 months over a set of offensive social media posts that resurfaced after her Academy Award nomination was introduced in late January.
Within the posts, she insulted Muslims, criticized range on the Oscars and disparaged homicide sufferer George Floyd. In one other put up presupposed to be from the Gascón, she known as her co-star Selena Gomez a “rich rat.”
The actor later apologized for the “pain” her posts triggered in an announcement by means of “Emilia Pérez” distributor Netflix.
“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. “All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
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However she additionally defended herself in an interview with CNN Español the place she mentioned her she had “not committed any crime” or “harmed anyone” along with her phrases.
“I am neither racist nor anything that all these people have tried to make others believe I am,” she informed the outlet on the time.
