The primary overtly transgender Oscar nominee for Finest Actress, Karla Sofía Gascón, spoke out after being criticized for previous controversial social media posts.
The Academy Award contender, who starred in “Emilia Pérez,” has been in sizzling water the previous week after quite a few outdated tweets emerged criticizing quite a lot of teams.
These posts ranged from slamming a number of religions because the “f—ing beliefs of morons that violate human rights,” to referring to George Floyd shortly after his loss of life as a “drug addict swindler.”
In that latter submit, Gascón appeared to criticize either side of the controversy over Floyd’s loss of life, comparable to those that “still consider black people to be monkeys” and those that “consider policemen to be assassins.”
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón responded to the large public backlash by organising an interview with CNN en Español, “without the involvement of anyone working on the film, which was distributed by Netflix.”
The performer supplied, “my most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended by the ways I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future,” however vowed to not step down from the nomination through the tearful interview.
“I cannot renounce a nomination because what I have done is a job and what is being valued is my acting work,” Gascón informed anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
“And I cannot renounce a nomination either because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone. I am not a racist, nor am I anything that all these people have taken it upon themselves to try to make others believe that I am.”
The Oscar nominee as an alternative argued, as translated by Google, “I believe that I have been judged, condemned and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.”
Gascón additionally tried to make clear feedback about Floyd, with the Hollywood Reporter summarizing the performer had “merely intended to point out the hypocrisy surrounding his elevation as a symbol of oppression.”
“He was a person who had been in a very difficult situation in his life and no one had helped him, and suddenly he becomes a symbol of a cause and everyone loved him,” Gascón informed Arciniegas, as translated by The Hollywood Reporter.
“But for someone to think that… I have ever insulted a person because of their skin color, I do not allow that to anyone, to anyone.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Gascón’s administration final week and didn’t obtain a direct reply.
