Karla Sofía Gascón obtained a shoutout from her “Emilia Perez” director on the 2025 BAFTA Movie Awards regardless of the controversy over her resurfaced tweets.
Jacques Audiard, who helmed the musical crime film, went on stage to simply accept the award for Finest Movie Not within the English Language and talked about Gascón, 52, in his speech after he beforehand condemned her “hateful” social media remarks.
“Above all, I would like to thank all the wonderful artists who brought this film to life and who are here with us tonight,” stated Audiard, 72, based on Selection.
“My dear Zoe, my dear Selena, Giorgini, Paul, Juliet, Camille, Clement, Julia and your team, but also you, my dear Karla Sofia, that I kiss,” he continued. “I’m deeply proud of what we achieved together. Long live ‘Emilia Pérez’!”
Audiard attended the BAFTAs alongside the movie’s stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña, who have been each nominated within the supporting actress class, which Saldaña received.
Gascón skipped the award present, simply as she did for the Critics Selection Awards and PGA Awards.
The transgender actress has been dealing with backlash over her outdated Twitter posts the place she criticized Muslim tradition and George Floyd.
Audiard addressed Gascón’s controversy for the primary time in a Feb. 5 interview with Deadline and referred to as her “hateful” messages “inexcusable.”
“I really don’t understand why she’s continuing. Why is she harming herself? … She’s talking about herself as a victim, which is surprising. It’s as if she thought that words don’t hurt,” Audiard stated, referring to how Gascón initially refused to take possession of her actions in an her interview with CNN.
Audiard added on the time, “I haven’t spoken to her, and I don’t want to.”
Gomez, 32, and Saldaña, 46, have additionally expressed their disappointment of their co-star’s habits, whereas Netflix’s Chief Content material Officer, Bela Bajari, stated on a podcast just lately that the entire state of affairs is a “bummer.”
“I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. If you look at the nominations, and all of this awards love that it’s received, I think it’s such a bummer that it distracted from that,” stated Bajari.
“Emilia Perez” is nominated for 13 awards on the upcoming 2025 Oscars, together with Finest Image, Finest Director for Audiard and Finest Actress for Gascón.
Throughout her CNN en Español interview, Gascón denied the claims of racism and stood by her Academy Award nomination.
“I cannot step down from an Oscar nomination because I have not committed any crime, nor have I harmed anyone,” she stated. “I am neither racist nor anything that all these people have tried to make others believe I am.”
Gascón later issued an apology on Instagram on Feb. 7.
“I decided, for the film, for Jacques, for the cast, for the incredible crew who deserves it, for the beautiful adventure we all had together, to let the work talk for itself, hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference,” she wrote.
