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.”
Comedian Conan O’Brien had a fun time trolling Karla Sofia Gascón, a transgender actor nominated for Best Actress with Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez,” for past tweets that likely torpedoed Karla’s award chances.
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.
The idea that Netflix never bothered to vet Karla Sofia Gascón’s social media accounts before dropping a reported $30 million into an Oscar campaign is really something.
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.
Actor Karla Sofia Gascon appeared to step back Friday from the Oscar campaign for her hit Netflix narco-musical “Emilia Perez” after her offensive past social media posts hit its chances of glory.
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.
NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”
Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars 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.
In the one the evening’s biggest upsets, Demi Moore beat transgender “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón and “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo to win the Golden Globe award for best actress in a comedy or musical.
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.
The first transgender actor to claim Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday launched a legal complaint over a “sexist insult” from a French politician after the win.
A transgender actor starring in the new movie Emilia Perez at the Cannes Film Festival said that gender should be “unimportant,” adding that trans individuals are “normal people.” Karla Sofía Gascón — who was born male and now identifies as
