As Oscar marketing campaign season continues to roll on, a brand new report from Selection notes that Netflix has begun distancing itself from Emilia Perez star Karla Sofía Gascón within the wake of her string of controversial feedback that popped up lately.
In accordance with Selection’s report, Gascón was set to make appearances at a litany of award reveals this week main as much as the Academy Awards on March 2, 2025, together with an AFI Awards luncheon, the Critics Alternative Awards, the Administrators Guild of America Awards, and the Producers Guild of America Awards, as effectively a cease on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Nevertheless, the report notes that Gascón is now not anticipated to be at any of them, and moreover, ought to she wish to, Selection studies that Netflix won’t be paying for the actress to attend, nor masking any bills for styling or journey. As a substitute, Gascón must pay for her personal journey to the present, and canopy her personal bills.
Selection’s report additionally mentions that Gascón’s public relations agency, The Lede Firm, has stopped speaking on to the actress, and are solely speaking by way of her United Expertise Company consultant. The controversial statements from Gascón have additionally thrown doubt over whether or not or not Emilia Perez will proceed to be the favourite that it was going into the Oscars just some weeks in the past.
What’s the Karla Sofía Gascón controversy?
Earlier this month, past comments from Gascón surfaced, the place the actress commented on the homicide of George Floyd in 2020, in addition to issues just like the Muslim inhabitants in her native Spain, and even commenting on Christopher Columbus and statues of him being taken down in sure locations.
“Let me get this straight, a man tries to move off a counterfeit invoice after consuming methamphetamine, an fool policeman arrives and goes too far in arresting him, killing him, ruining the lives of his household and his colleagues, and turning the man with the invoice right into a martyr hero,” Gascón wrote in a tweet in 2020 (by way of THR). “I really consider that only a few folks ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, however his dying has served to focus on as soon as once more that there are those that nonetheless contemplate Black folks to be monkeys with out rights and those that contemplate the police to be murderers. All fallacious.”
Gascón additionally beforehand talked about the Muslim inhabitants in Spain rising, saying that Islam goes “towards European values and violate human rights” and needs to be banned, and likewise taking umbrage with the truth that extra Muslim folks had been getting into Spain.
“Sorry, is it simply my impression or are there increasingly more Muslims in Spain? Each time I am going to choose up my daughter from college there are extra girls with their hair coated and their skirts right down to their heels,” she posted Nov. 23, 2020. “Possibly subsequent yr as an alternative of English we’ll have to show Arabic.”
(Supply: Variety)
