Karla Sofía Gascón made historical past by being the first-ever trans actress nominated for Finest Actress on the 2025 Oscars. Nonetheless, amid the controversy over her offensive resurfaced outdated tweets, the Emilia Pérez actress needed to skip a number of of the current Award ceremonies, regardless of being a nominee.
Gascón is ready to attend the Academy Awards, set to be held on Sunday, March 2. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Academy CEO Invoice Kramer addressed the continuing controversies related to the actress and demanded “respect” if she determined to attend the ceremony.
Kramer clarified that though the Academy doesn’t “condone hate speech,” Gascón’s nomination is “historic” and deserves to be acknowledged. He defined that every one nominees are invited and need to be handled with respect, so the identical applies to Gascón, whatever the present state of affairs.
“If Karla joins us for the night time, I hope there may be an air of respect,” he added. Kramer emphasised that over 200 nominees will likely be celebrated on the awards night time and that the ceremony is a lot greater than that one individual.
On January 30, shortly after the overtly trans actress’s historic Oscars nomination, journalist Sarah Hagi shared screenshots of her outdated Islamophobic and anti-Black rhetoric tweets. After the posts have been dropped at folks’s consideration, Gascón obtained scrutiny and alleged loss of life threats on social media. She has since deleted her X account.
Later, the actress shared an apology for her insensitive remarks. “I wish to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have brought on damage,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter. As somebody who belongs to a marginalised neighborhood, she empathized with the ache and apologized for inflicting it.
Aside from Gascón’s Finest Actress nod, Emilia Pérez is headed for the Oscars with 12 extra nominations, together with Finest Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana) and Finest Movie.