Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Emilia Pérez’ Star Karla Sofía Gascón Deactivates X Account After Apologizing for Offensive Posts
“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón has deactivated her Twitter/X account after apologizing for offensive posts that resurfaced Thursday.
Gascón’s X account @karsiagascon was deactivated as of Friday morning.
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Gascón came under fire Thursday after X users discovered tweets from 2020 and 2021 that had controversial views on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars.
She later apologized in a statement to Variety: “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Among her several resurfaced tweets, Gascón critiqued the diversity of the 2021 Oscars ceremony.
“More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala,” she wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).
She also called George Floyd a “drug addict swindler” after he was killed by a police officer in 2020 and inspired protests around the U.S.
“I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong,” she wrote.
Last week, Gascón became the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar for her lead role in Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez.” She was also the first transgender woman to win the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, which she shared with her co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, and she was the first trans woman nominated for film acting at the Golden Globes.
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