Karla Sofía Gascón, protagonist of “Emilia Pérez”
“Emilia Pérez” actress risks losing 13 nominations to movie awards. Brazilian Fernanda Torres also received criticism-she was going through black in a television program… 20 years ago.
“” It is the movie with the most nominations for the 2025 edition of the Oscars, which will take place in March: Sum 13.
Among them, the appointment for best actress stands out for being the first attributed to a transsexual woman, the Spanish Karla Sofía Gascón.
However, the actress is now being the target of harsh criticism of old social networks on her X account, previously known as Twitter, in which the actress seems to express controversial opinions about Muslims, George Floyd and Oscar diversity. There are those who really want to take the appointment.
According to Variety, most of the Gallemic statements of Gascon on social networks date from 2020 and 2021. Journalist Sarah Hagi was the one who discovered the tweets, most of them eliminated by the actress this week.
In one of them, for example, you can read: “Sorry, but it’s just my impression or more Muslims in Spain? Whenever I get my daughter from school, there are more women with covered hair and skirts to her heels. Next year, instead of English, we will have to teach Arab“. Enough, in another tweet, to say that Religion “must be prohibited until it meets human rights. ”
In another post, it calls George Floyd, which became the face of the #blacklivesmatter movement after being murdered by a police in 2020, one “Toxicodependent con artist”. Now, on social networks, the actress is racist.
Criticism of the Oscars are also found in the actress’s posts: “More and more Oscars look like a ceremony for independent and protest filmsI didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a demonstration of Black Lives Matter or 8M, “he wrote in X.” In addition, an ugly, ugly gala. “
In 2020, it also did Criticism of Covid-19 vaccines. “The Chinese vaccine, in addition to the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat-moving cat, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up flashlight, 3 telephone lines and a euro for its first controlled purchase,” he published .
The discontent of the general public also arises with the very realization of the film.
On social networks, they rain the fact that the film, which intends to portray the Mexican culture, Have been recorded, in fact in Paris. The fact was even commented by Mexican director Rodrigo Prieto, who found the fact “problematic”.
The displeasure with the actress began, explains, earlier this week, when Gascon complained in one that the social networking team that worked with Fernanda Torres, named for better Actress by, Brazilian film by Walter Salles, was “Shooting her (Gascon) and Emilia Pérez below”.
It was the impression that Gascon had attacked a competitor in a way that went against the spirit of the Oscars. Then all the controversial tweets, which second, can (even if they do not remove the nominations to the movie) end their chances of winning the prize.
Black maid? Fernanda Torres “lament”
For her part, the one also named for the role of best actress, Fernanda Torres, also saw a wave of excitement against her when she started circulating this month, a video of her almost 20 years, in which she appears to make “Blackface” in one Brazilian television program.
“Blackface” occurs when a person makes black through characterization, when it is not, in reality. In an episode of “Fantastic”, he plays a black maid, having painted his body with darker paint than the tone of his skin.
According to, the actress has already made public apologize for the happened. “Almost 20 years ago, I appeared to use Blackface in a comedy of a Brazilian TV show. I am very sorry for that. I am making this statement because it is important for me to approach this quickly to avoid more pain and misunderstood, ”he wrote in a statement.
“At that time, despite the efforts of black movements and organizations, the conscience of racist history and the symbolism of the Blackface had not yet achieved the understanding of the general public in Brazil,” he wrote.
“Thanks to a better cultural understanding and important achievements, though incomplete in this century, it is very clear now in our country and everywhere Blackface is never acceptable“.
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
