Zoe Saldaña is “sad” in regards to the dust-up over Karla Sofía Gascón’s outdated racist social media publish, however she isn’t throwing her “Emilia Pérez” co-star underneath the bus.
“I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad,” Saldaña stated throughout a Q&A session in London on Friday, per The Hollywood Reporter. “It makes me really sad because I don’t support and don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group.”
“I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that is a part of this film, and my experience and interactions with them was incredibly about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural and gender equity,” she added. “And it just saddens me.”Gascón appeared something however inclusive within the racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on X, previously Twitter, that
Journalist Sara Hagi found Gascón’s historical past of racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on Thursday, days after Gascón grew to become the primary brazenly trans individual to be nominated for a Finest Actress Oscar.
Whereas a few of the since-deleted posts dated to 2016, she’d made others as just lately as 2023.
On X, previously Twitter, Gascón had denigrated Black individuals and Muslims, and known as George Floyd — the Black man murdered by Minneapolis police in 2020 — “a drug addict and a scammer,” per a web-based translation.
Gascón has since deleted her X account and apologized in a assertion to The Related Press. However she reportedly argued Saturday on Instagram in Spanish that she’s been “condemned without a trial” and that her critics “have already won” in tarnishing her.
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The scandal arrived at an unlucky time for the remainder of the “Emilia Pérez” group, who earned a mixed 13 Oscar nominations final month.
“It saddens me that we are having to face this setback right now,” Saldaña, who obtained her first-ever Oscars nod for the movie, stated at Friday’s Q&A, per THR.
She continued, “But I’m happy that you’re all here and that you’re all still showing up for ‘Emilia,’ because the message that this film has is so powerful and the change it can bring forward to communities that are marginalized day in and day out is important.”
