“I have been crucified and stoned”

On February 3, 2025By Littum

Embattled Emilia Pérez Star- and Oscar-nominated Karla Sofía Gascón appeared in an hour-long, unauthorized CNN an Español interview on Sunday morning, where she collapsed in tears and was ranted at various points about her resurfaced racist and Islamophobe tweets.

Originally repeating many of the same points in her Instagram -Undslaging released yesterdayGascón reiterated that she is “not racist” and offered her “most sincere excuses to all the people who may have felt offended to the way I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future.”

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She later continued, “I think I’ve been convicted, I’ve been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the opportunity to defend myself.”

Deadline has confirmed that Netflix was not involved in the creation of the CNN interview and did not realize it was taking place.

In an interview that jumped significantly around topics, with the interviewer Juan Carlos Arciniegas, who is often unable to get a word in, GASCONE discussed her “amazing daughter”, whom she said has taught her “important values” and added , that she concerns the struggle of black people.

“I feel and identify a lot with the people thrown by buses for the color of their skin, with the people who did not want them to study at university, for the people who were simply hated for existing ones, like How I’m hated at this moment, ”she said.

Gascón occasionally broke down in tears and quoted a “relationship with a wonderful woman who is a Muslim who has taught her about respect and understanding perhaps better than before.” She later said she has been “100%” supported by her in this moment.

At another time, Gascón traveled her brother who died when she was 20 years old: “When I was very small, my brother died in an accident at Christmas and I have always kept a resentment to people of all spectrum because it Looks to me that people are something regrettable, but something where I have incredible hope. “

She continued to say that she has always received hatred, for example, to wear earrings or a skirt, and has previously been called anti-homosexual sleds to be trans. In addition, she said she has been exposed to hatred from some people in Mexico to be Spanish and claimed they called her a “Spanish woman who came again to rob them for gold.”

Later Gascón referred in Madrid -train bomb from 2004, as she said, left a mark on her: “It affected me to see two days before some people prayed inside the train, very similar to the people who later performed these attacks. “

In the middle of tears, she also said: “I have not stopped receiving hatred, death threats, insults, abuse. I haven’t seen anyone who has come out in any media, any room, any place, raising their hand to me and saying, ‘Hi, what happens to this person as you massacring?’ And no one, no one has lifted a single finger to change. “

When asked about her tweet where she considered George Floyd, who was murdered in the hands of the police in 2020, a “drug addict and a hustler,” Gascón replied that she was doing the post and has treated social media as “unfortunately more like a Diary “Filled with” Reflections In contrast to something that can affect someone, because before I was here, my post was seen by three people. “

The actress, who made history as the first open trans -woman who was nominated for best actress on Oscars, continued to say that she is highly dependent on “irony, sarcasm and sometimes exaggeration, and of course I use a resource to Talk in third person if what I was writing was written by someone who thinks in a negative way. “Gascón added that she is” obviously “a supporter of Black Lives Matter movement, claiming she wrote the tweet to point out other people’s racist comments.

Gascón acknowledged that her tweet about the 93. Oscars, where she considered Daniel Kaluuyas and Yuh-Jung Youn’s respective winnings as a sign of a “afro-Korean festival” as a “stupidity” and “certainly deserved these awards for all their their work and not for who they are.

Arciniegas then asked Gascón to turn to a tweet she wrote that read: “This is the same as always: ‘Black slaves and the woman in the kitchen’. But this is my opinion and it must be respected. I don’t understand so much world war against Hitler, he simply had his opinion on the Jews. The end, that’s how the world goes. “In response, Gascón said she again used” third person, as if I was a Nazi. “

Gascón added that with his tweets about Floyd, Muslims and Hitler together: “It seems that this is a terrible and evil person when I just intend to reflect the opposite.”

At another time, Gascón also debated a circulated tweet where she seemed to call Co-Star Selena Gomez a “rich rat” as manufactured and that she “has never said anything about my colleague.”

“I said, ‘Well, but what have I done in my life? What have I done – if I haven’t killed a fly that when I go to places and I have a spider in my house, I put it in a cup not to kill it and take it out on the street? “She said in tears and said that the answer to the controversy has made her feel like she has committed a” crime. “

Gascón decided to have to put three to four years of work “like crazy” to Emilia Pérez Only to now defend themselves against those who try to make sure she is “not there anymore, not even that I do not win.” She said that regardless of “the” for “those she finds bad faith actors who” have nothing in this world “and choose to come after her instead.

“If they want to withdraw any nomination if they want to pull the fire that supports me, or whatever, I ask that they do it with a fair trial, giving me the opportunity to defend me,” added she.

When asked what Netflix or Gascón’s agency has shared with her, the actress said she has met them once and can’t say much because they will soon be reunited to discuss further. She added that she told Netflix from the start that she didn’t know why she was going to launch a price campaign when she maintained that those who liked her performance would see it and vote for it, and all she could do, was to contribute her work.

Gascón added that she has “nothing to hide” and a “pure conscience,” and said, “if the whole world thinks I’m as bad of a person that I have to return to my home and such, Then I will go home with my family, my cats and with the people who love me and I will continue my life as I have done before, (where) I have never lacked a plate of soup because I have done it honestly without hurting someone in this world.

When asked if she thinks “Pride played a role in everything,” Gascón replied: “When you come from a place where you constantly have to defend yourself … Is it really ugly to get used to receiving violence and being in Standing to fight and live in a world where you are constantly threatened with death, you sometimes have to lift yourself over it so they didn’t sink you. let go and did not have this capacity, I would certainly have already taken myself from this world from all the things that have happened to me.

Gascón ended the interview by apologizing for her daughter for dealing with the ongoing controversy instead of celebrating, adding that she is aware that her words “will be wrongly represented with what (others) likes or wishes. This is obvious and they will draw the conclusions that each one will draw, but which I told you before, I am only responsible for what my heart feels. “

See the interview in Spanish below:

Freelance cultural writer Sarah Hagi first revealed Gascóns then removed tweets on Thursday. Before the above interview and her post on Instagram yesterday, Gascón made a statement through Netflix, saying: “I will recognize the conversation about my previous social media posts that have caused evil. Like someone in a marginalized society, I know this disorder all too well and I am deeply sorry for those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I think light will always prevail over the dark. “

Co -star Zoe Saldaña also commented on the case and said, “It really makes me sad because I don’t support and I have no tolerance for any negative rhetoric to people in any group. I can only certify the experience I had with every single person who was part of this movie, and my experience and my interaction with them were about inclusive and cooperation and racial, cultural and gender law. And it just makes sure me. “

The controversy is the latest to plague the movie: the French Auteur Jacques Audiard was under fire for To call Spanish language about “the poor and migrants” And not examined Mexican story before making the film, about a Mexican cartel manager aiming to retire and review the transition. The film – leading the package of 13 Oscar nicks – while loved by critics and awards are both deeply unpopular in Mexico where it is Screening to empty theaters and even led to a parody short film response entitled “Johanne Sacreblu,” Invoiced as “a French -inspired movie made completely without a French crew or crew.”

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