Emilia Pérez

Actress Zoe Saldana apologized at the Academy Awards on Sunday, saying, “I’m very, very sorry that many Mexicans felt offended” by Netflix’s trans drug cartel musical, “Emilia Pérez.”

Oscar contender “Emilia Pérez” was named the best French film of the year at the Césars awards — France’s equivalent of the Oscars — and under-fire Karla Sofia Gascón, the star of Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set melodrama, made a rare public appearance.

Netflix broke its silence on the scandal surrounding its drug cartel musical, Emilia Pérez, in which the film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón, has come under fire for his previous social media posts disparaging Muslims, the Chinese, and black people.

Jacques Audiard, director of the Netflix drug cartel musical “Emilia Pérez,” has disavowed his film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón for his past social media posts that disparaged Muslims, the Chinese, and black people, threatening to derail the actor’s campaign for Best Actress.

Netflix has dropped Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of “Emilia Perez,” from its high-profile Oscars campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee over her offensive social media posts, Hollywood trade outlets reported Tuesday.

Netflix has taken the extraordinary step of removing best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofia Gascón from its Academy Awards campaign for “Emilia Perez,” cancelling appearances by the transgender performer and deleting any reference to Gascón from its Oscar-themed advertisements.

“Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — also penned a lengthy apology amid the continued publicity crisis over the actor’s past social media posts in which Gascón repeatedly insulted Muslims, mocked George Floyd, and ridiculed diversity.

The Oscar race for best actress is getting nasty, with Karla Sofia Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — accusing the team behind a rival nominee of launching a smear campaign.

It may have been embraced by the Academy, but just a day after its debut in Mexico, the acclaimed “narco-musical” Emilia Pérez was already drawing rebukes for superficial portrayals of sensitive subjects.

Netflix’s transgender best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón raged at President Donald Trump over his executive order stating the U.S. government will recognize only “two sexes,” calling the president “shameless.”

Karla Sofía Gascón — the transgender star of Netflix’s narco-musical “Emilia Perez” — has earned an Academy Award nomination for lead actress, making Gascón the first openly trans actor ever to receive an Oscar nomination.

Transgender “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón has scored a BAFTA nomination for lead actress — another bellwether of an increasingly likely Academy Award nomination for the  breakout star who is a man who identifies as a woman.

Karla Sofia Gascón, the star of Netflix’s drug lord musical “Emilia Pérez,” promoted transgenderism for children in a recent interview, claiming to have known that he wanted to be a girl since the mere age of four.

Transgenderism will play a major role at this year’s Golden Globes Awards on Sunday, with best picture frontrunners Emilia Perez and Conclave both featuring gender non-conformity as major plot points.

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to lead it over other contenders like the musical smash “Wicked,” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the post-war epic “The Brutalist.”