Karla Sofia Gascon apologizes for racist tweets

Karla Sofía Gascón apologized on Thursday for the controversial tweets found on her social media accounts that morning.

“I want to acknowledge the conversation about my previous social media posts that have caused evil,” said gascón. “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. ”

The Emilia Pérez Star came headlines early Thursday when her old post on X (formerly Twitter) reappeared and encouraged controversy.

In separate tweets, Gascón had tweeted about the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the Muslim population of her original Spain.

“Let me get this straight, a guy is trying to give up a counterfeit bill after consuming methamphetamine, an idiot police officer arrives and goes too far to arrest him, kill him, destroy his family and his colleagues’ lives and turn the guy with the bill to a martyr hero, ”she wrote summer 2020 (in Spanish, which was translated here by Google Translate). “I really think very few people were ever interested in George Floyd, a drug addict and a hustler, but his death has earned again to emphasize that there are those who still consider black people as monkeys without rights and those who consider police to be murderers. Everything wrong. “

Later that year she twitly twitly twitzed, “Sorry, is it just my impression, or are there more and more Muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school, there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels, ”she posted on November 23, 2020.” Maybe next year instead of English we will have to teach Arabic. “

She also continued to suggest that Islam go “against European values ​​and violate human rights” and that religion should be banned.

Emilia Pérez Leads this year’s Oscar nominations with 13, including a best actress nodding for Gascón, making her the first openly transcent actress to receive the honor. In another tweet, Gascón shared his thoughts on Oscar’s Telecast in 2021 that saw the best picture prize go to Nomadland: “More and more #oscars look like a ceremony for independent and protest movies, I didn’t know if I saw an Afro-Korean festival, a demonstration of Black Lives Matter or 8m. Except for it an ugly, ugly gala. ”

Several of Gascón’s positions disappeared from her account later on Thursday, with many explicit confusion over why they were still up in the first place, considering her own Oscars campaign. The controversy also comes after the actress suggested in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper that online forces are working in an attempt to lubricate her and Emilia Pérez team. “What I don’t like is social media teams – people working with these people – trying to reduce our work, like me and my film because it doesn’t lead anywhere,” she said. “You don’t have to tear down someone’s work to highlight someone else’s. I have never at any time said anything bad about Fernanda Torres or her film. There are, however, people working with Fernanda Torres who tear me and Emilia Pérez down. It talks more about their film than mine. “