Karla Sofia Gascon comes out of silence. In a press release, Relayed by the Hollywood Reporter, The Film Star Emilia Pérez He returned to his controversial campaign to the Oscar, marked by a living controversy after the discovery of the ancient tweets of the actress considered offensive and racist.
The Spanish actress first wanted to apologize again for the words she made in these old messages. “Without the intention of defending my actions, I apologize to all I have offended at one time or another in my life already throughout my career,” Karla Sofía Gascon said.
“I humbly ask you to forgive and, to honor your kindness and understanding, I promise to commit to continue learning and listening, so as not to make the same mistakes in the future,” he added.
Karla Sofía Gascon, who explained last February that she had received death threats after her racist tweets, then revealed that “provides the unthinkable” in the apogee of this controversy.
“There were times when the pain was so overwhelming that I considered the unthinkable. I fed darkest thoughts that I had considered in some of my previous struggles (…) others would not have survived this brutal storm that is about to calm down,” he explained.
“Mexico occupies an invaluable place in my heart”
Karla Sofia Gascon also addressed another controversy aboutEmilia Pérez In Mexico, where the film is widely criticized, many accuse it of slightly appropriating the tragedies of narco violence.
“I put my soul, my life and my essence in this project, working with great Mexican friends who helped me transmit a message of hope: we can all become better people, whatever our starting point or our beginnings in this search that is called life,” he said.
“Mexico occupies an invaluable place in my heart. In this magnetic and amazing country, I could establish my career as an actress and I received a human warmth that I will never forget. Dictatorships, terror, abuse and irrationality,” he added.
Vertiginous
Crowned at the Cannes Film Festival of the Jury Prize and an interpretation award for all its interpreters, including Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Pérez By Jacques Audiard, musical Odyssey about the transition of the genre of a Mexican drug trafficker, saw his chances of triumphing in the Oscars in smoke after many controversies.
Despite 13 nominations, the feature film experienced a vertiginous fall, when the former racist and Islamophobic tweets of Karla Sofia Gascon have resurfaced. The actress significantly described Islam there as “home of humanity infection” and made fun of diversity in entertainment, or the anti -racist movement born after the death of George Floyd, an American black murdered by the police in 2020.
In response, Jacques Audiard has distinguished himself as his main actress, calling Gascon messages as “inexcusable” and “full of hate.” The case also led Netflix, which manages the cinematographic campaign for the Oscar, to distance and eliminate the actress from all her campaigns.
Result, while enthroned in Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez Finally I had only two awards, the best female support role for Zoe Saldana and the best song, to Evil.
Source: BFM TV
