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Karla Sofía Gascón doesn’t need her ongoing controversy to have an effect on her Oscars competition! The Emilia Pérez actress who’s nominated for Greatest Actress at this yr’s Academy Awards, spoke to CNN en Español about what it means amid the continued drama.
The actress was just lately criticized for her previous racist and Islamophobic tweets in addition to her supposed dig at costar Selena Gomez. She allegedly obtained demise threats, abuse, and “harassment to the purpose of exhaustion” which led to her deleting her X (formally Twitter) account.
When requested whether or not she would resign her Oscar nomination, Gascón blatantly denied it claiming that she did her job and deserves to be honored for her appearing work. “I can not step down from an Oscar nomination as a result of I’ve not dedicated any crime, nor have I harmed anybody,” she advised the outlet.
The actress defined that she isn’t an Islamophobic or anything that individuals tried to make her consider about herself. In the course of the interview, Gascón grew to become visibly emotional whereas addressing her now-deleted tweets concerning the 2020 homicide of George Floyd that prompted the notorious Black Lives Matter motion.
Within the since-deleted publish, the actress referred to as Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.” She allegedly mentioned that the incident highlighted that individuals nonetheless thought of Black individuals to be “monkeys with out rights” and that some individuals think about police to be murderers.
Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis after he was suspected of utilizing a counterfeit twenty-dollar invoice. Gascón defined to CNN that her outburst got here from a special place as a result of she considered Floyd as a person present process a troublesome state of affairs in his life immediately turning into a logo of a trigger and everybody beloved him.
Defending the Isamophia criticism, she advised the outlet about her earlier relationship with a Muslim girl whom she “adored” and beloved.