Oscar Frontrunner Apologizes After Blowing Up Her Campaign

Oscar-nominated star Karla Sofia Gascón from Emilia Pérez has issued an apology for her controversial social media posts on X where she disparaged Muslims, George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars.

“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” she said in a statement to Variety. “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 a barrage of tweets, mostly posted between 2020 and 2021, in a post from Aug. 16, 2021, Gascón wrote: “I am so sick of so much of this s---, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of all the f---ing beliefs of morons that violate human rights,” Variety reported.

That was not Gascón’s first post commenting on religion. On Jan. 29, 2021, she wrote, “Islam fails to comply with international rights,” and that the religion “must be banned as long as it does not comply with DDHH,” which is an abbreviation for human rights in Spanish law.

“Deleted or not, these tweets are hurtful, offensive, and shocking, most especially coming from someone who is a member of another vulnerable community,” the Muslim Public Affairs Council responded in a statement. “Muslims are part of every community, including the transgender community. ‘European values’ Does she mean the ones that led to the Holocaust? She needs to immerse herself in Islamic history. When Europe was in the dark age, Muslims were busy discovering math, science, and medical equipment. Learn, woman.”

Gascón also didn’t shy away from commenting on the race and racism in her posts. Mere days after George Floyd’s death, the Emilia Pérez actor took to X to tweet a post that described Floyd as a “drug addict” and “swindler.”

She followed the post up by adding, “Too many things to reflect on regarding the behavior of our species every time an event occurs. Perhaps it is no longer a question of racism, but of social classes that feel threatened by each other. Maybe that’s the only real difference.”