Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón can be attending the Oscars in spite of everything. What’s extra, Netflix can be paying the bills for the Finest Actress nominee to attend the ceremony, in keeping with Selection.
The commerce journal studies 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 detrimental views towards Muslims, George Floyd, and variety on the Oscars resurfaced. She responded by issuing an announcement acknowledging that her posts “have triggered damage” and deactivating her account, however much more posts got here to mild, together with one during which she says Hitler “merely had his opinion of the Jews.”
Since these posts emerged, Gomez has mentioned that “a few of the magic has disappeared” from the awards season course of. “However I select to proceed to be happy with what I’ve performed, and I’m simply grateful. I dwell with no regrets, and I’d do that film time and again if I might.”
In the meantime, in a current interview with Selection, Saldaña continued emphasizing her stance that “I don’t help any detrimental rhetoric of racism and bigotry in the direction of any group of individuals. That’s what I wish to stand for.” She added that “I’m unhappy. Time and time once more, that’s the phrase as a result of that’s the sentiment that has been dwelling in my chest since all the things occurred.”
Gascón is the primary brazenly trans actor to obtain an Oscar nomination. Because the resurfaced posts, she has principally been lower from the awards cycle, skipping the Critics Selection Awards, the BAFTAs, and the SAG Awards. Nonetheless, 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.
