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“As
someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all
too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” the
actor said in a statement via Netflix, where her film can be
streamed. "All my life I have fought for a better world. I
believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Gascón made history as the first transgender performer to be
nominated for the Oscar for best actress, helping make “Emilia
Pérez” the most nominated film going into next month's show.
Netflix will be hoping the controversy doesn't derail the film's
Oscar chances.
Old posts from Gascon's account on Twitter resurfaced this week,
some going as far back as 2016, that took aim at Muslims' dress,
language and culture in her native Spain. She also suggested
that Islam be banned.
And less than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was
killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting
a national reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascón
offered her assessment of Floyd as a drug addict who “very few
people ever cared” for.
Gascón was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning
in 2018. In “Emilia Pérez,” she plays both a menacing cartel
kingpin and the woman who emerges after the kingpin fakes his
own death, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer
who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to help her reunite
with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children.
Old tweets have come back to haunt celebrities before, include
James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton. All have rebounded,
with Gunn getting rehired to direct the third “Guardians of the
Galaxy” film for Marvel and the upcoming “Superman” reboot; Noah
is hosting this weekend's Grammy Awards and Shelton was for
years a coach on NBC's “The Voice.”
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