“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofia Gascón is outwardly nonetheless planning on attending the 2025 Oscars — regardless of her controversial tweets going viral and mismanagement of the fallout.
The New York Put up first reported that Gascón, who’s nominated for Greatest Actress, will probably be within the viewers for the March 2 ceremony on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. IndieWire has reached out to Netflix for remark.
Gascón is the primary brazenly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar. She had posted quite a few Islamophobic feedback on-line, in addition to false statements about George Floyd and COVID. Gascón additional slammed each her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Selena Gomez and the Oscars ceremony itself in previous tweets.
Because the Put up said, particulars about Gascón’s plans for the Oscars are nonetheless being finalized, from whether or not or not she’s going to stroll the pink carpet, cease for interviews, or sit along with her “Emilia Pérez” ensemble together with Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, and director Jacques Audiard. Filmmaker Audiard not too long ago stated that he has not spoken to Gascón because the tweets have been uncovered.
If Gascón does in actual fact attend the Oscars, Netflix will probably be footing the invoice for her journey bills.
“Emilia Pérez” is the most-nominated movie on the 2025 Oscars, and likewise made historical past with probably the most nominations for a global movie ever. The French-Spanish musical has 13 nods.
Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria stated throughout podcast “The City with Matthew Belloni” that it’s a “bummer” Gascón’s controversy has overshadowed the awards marketing campaign.
“ what I feel can be a bummer for 100 very extremely proficient individuals who made an incredible film, and when you have a look at the nominations, and all of those kind of awards love that it’s obtained, I feel it’s such a bummer that it’s distracted from that,” Bajaria stated. “It actually has type of taken the dialog differently, apart from this unimaginable film that Jacques Audiard, who’s an unimaginable director, has made. And so to me, it truly is a bummer for lots of the individuals who have, like Zoe and Selena, unimaginable performances.”
Gascón beforehand issued an apology for her feedback.
“I need to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have brought on harm,” she stated in a press release. “As somebody in a marginalized neighborhood, I do know this struggling all too nicely and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve brought on ache. All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider mild will all the time overcome darkness.”
She later added on social media, “The very first thing I’d love to do is ask for probably the most honest forgiveness from those that really feel unhealthy about the best way I’ve expressed myself at any stage of my life. I’ve many issues to study on this world, the varieties [in which I learn] are my largest defect. Life has taught me one thing I by no means needed to study: it’s clear to me that regardless of how a lot my message is my message, with out utilizing the correct phrases, [the message] can convert into one other. I’ve gone from residing a standard life to a life on the prime of my career in simply six months, now my accountability may be very nice as a result of my voice not solely belongs to me however to many individuals who really feel represented and hopeful by or with me. I’m not the identical particular person I used to be 10 or 20 years in the past, though I hadn’t dedicated any crimes I used to be not good both, I’m not even good now. I simply attempt to study and be a greater particular person day-after-day.”
Gascón allegedly can be planning on attending the César Awards in Paris, that are deemed the French Oscars, on February 28.