Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón might be attending the Oscars in spite of everything. What’s extra, Netflix might be paying the bills for the Greatest Actress nominee to attend the ceremony, in keeping with Selection.
The commerce journal reviews that plans for Gascón’s look are “nonetheless being finalized.” This consists of the questions of whether or not she is going to stroll the pink carpet, take interviews, or be seated with co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez and director Jacques Audiard.
In late January, Gascón’s awards season marketing campaign got here to a screeching halt when previous tweets expressing destructive views towards Muslims, George Floyd, and variety on the Oscars resurfaced. She responded by issuing an announcement acknowledging that her posts “have brought on damage” and deactivating her account, however much more posts got here to gentle, together with one wherein she says Hitler “merely had his opinion of the Jews.”
Gascón is the primary overtly trans actor to obtain an Oscar nomination. Because the resurfaced posts, she has largely been lower from the awards cycle, skipping the Critics Selection Awards, the BAFTAs, and the SAG Awards. Nevertheless, she is reportedly set to attend the César Awards in Paris on February twenty eighth — simply days earlier than the Oscars happen on March 2nd.