Zoe Saldaña Does Not ‘Support’ Karla Sofía Gascón’s Racist Tweets

Karla Sofía Gascón’s Emilia Pérez co-star, Zoe Saldaña, has spoken out against the actor’s offensive tweets, which resurfaced this week.

Saldaña, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee, spoke about the controversy during a Q&A in London—an event Gascón was also scheduled to attend.

“It makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group,” Saldaña said. “I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part… of this film. And my experience and my interactions with them [were] about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it just saddens me.”

Emilia Pérez, the most nominated film at this year’s Oscars, has been getting a lot of extra attention this week after Gascón‘s past tweets resurfaced. In the posts, the transgender actress tweeted controversial statements about Muslims, George Floyd, and more. Many were posted between 2020 and 2021.

“I am so sick of so much of this sh-t, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of all the f---ing beliefs of morons that violate human rights,” she wrote in 2021.

“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,” she posted just days after Floyd was killed in 2020. “They’re all wrong.”

Gascón, the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award, also criticized diversity at the Oscars in 2021.

“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,” Gascón wrote. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.” She apologized for the posts after they were brought to light.

At the Q&A, Saldaña closed off her statement by saying: “All that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. That’s all we can say right now.”