Netflix boss Bela Bajaria has damaged her silence to confess the controversy surrounding the main actress of the streamer’s Oscar-nominated movie Emilia Pérez “actually is a bummer.”
Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón is nominated within the Lead Actress class, however has been on the again foot this Awards Season since tweets she beforehand posted making feedback about Islam, the homicide of George Floyd and variety on the Oscars have come to mild.
Speaking on The Town podcast, the streamer’s Chief Content material Officer Bajaria mentioned:
“I feel it’s actually a bummer for the 100 extremely gifted individuals who made an incredible film. If you happen to have a look at the nominations, and all of this awards love that it’s obtained, I feel it’s such a bummer that it distracted from that.
“It actually has type of taken the dialog differently [from] this unbelievable film that Jacques Audiard – who’s an unbelievable director – has made.
“It truly is a bummer for lots of the individuals, like [co-stars] Zoe [Saldaña] and Selena [Gomez]. And in our awards group did an unbelievable marketing campaign for that film.”
Requested on the podcast if a social media vetting course of would develop into required for casting choices on tasks, Bajaria mentioned: “It’s probably not frequent observe for individuals to vet social tweets that manner. Lots of people are reevaluating that… I do suppose it’s elevating questions for lots of people about reevaluating that course of.”
BBC News reports that Gascón has apologised for the tweets, saying she was “deeply sorry to these I’ve prompted ache,” and that lots of her feedback had been taken out of context. Nevertheless, she has not been seen at lots of the typical pitstops for a high-profile awards season marketing campaign, and ‘For Your Consideration’ posters not characteristic her alongside Saldaña and Gomez.
She is just not scheduled to look on the BAFTA Movie Awards in London this Sunday night, and it isn’t but identified if she’s going to attend the Oscars on March 2. The movie has obtained 13 Academy Award nominations, with Saldaña among the many favourites to take residence the statuette for Finest Supporting Actress.
