Zoe Saldaña has responded to the backlash towards her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, stating that she is “still processing” every part however including that she doesn’t assist the emotions which have come out in Gascón’s outdated social media posts. “I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group,” says Saldaña throughout a Q&A in London on Friday.
Gascón, a first-time Oscar nominee for greatest actress and the primary overtly trans actress to ever be nominated within the class, got here underneath fireplace this week when a sequence of her outdated social media posts on X resurfaced in display pictures posted by author and podcaster Sarah Hagi. The posts, largely from 2020 and 2021, include a sequence of derogatory remarks about Muslim individuals, the Arab neighborhood, and Islam. More of Gascón’s posts started to flow into that reportedly commented on the 2020 homicide of George Floyd. “I truly believed that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, but his death has served to highlight once again that there are those who still consider black people to be monkeys without rights and those who consider the police to be murderers. All wrong,” learn the put up, which was translated from Spanish by way of Google Translate.
She later posted a number of apologies earlier than deleting her X account on Friday. “I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect me and my family, so at their request I am closing my account on X,” she wrote. “I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion.”
This scandal comes on the heels of Emilia Pérez’s 13 Oscar nominations, together with performing nominations for each her and Saldaña. In the Netflix movie, Gascón stars as a cartel boss who enlists a lawyer (Saldaña) to assist her transition into a lady and dwell as her true self. It debuted at Cannes to a powerful reception and an performing prize for the actors, and has been a essential hit since. At the Q&A in London, which Gascón didn’t attend, Saldaña went on so as to add: “I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part, that is a part, of this film, and my experience and my interactions with them was about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it just saddens me. It saddens me that we are having to face this setback right now.”
“But I’m happy that you’re all here and that you’re all still showing up for Emilia because the message that this film has is so powerful and the change that it can bring forward to communities that are marginalized day in and day out is important,” she added. “And 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.”
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