Scandalized ‘Emilia Pérez’ star could ‘skip’ case and Oscars

No one wants this, really.

Netflix may have scored a total of 13 Oscar nominations for “Emilia Pérez” – including best image – but after a scandal with the film’s best actress nominated, Karla Sofía Gascón, even streaming’s CEO has seemed to distance herself.

Power player Ted Sarandos sat with Erin Foster, the creator of Netflix’s hit series “Nobody Want this” at the American Film Institute’s annual lunch on Thursday-and away from the “Pérez” team that included author/director Jacques Audiard and Co-Star Zoe Saldaña.

The seating event was the lecture on the event, page six is ​​told as it comes after Gascón, 52, has drawn fire with recently resurrected racist and anti-Muslim tweets.

“Over the course of 40 years in this business, I have never seen a Debakel like ‘Emilia Pérez,'” said a long -lasting Hollywood insider who has worked at many Academy Awards campaigns.

Oscar matches are notorious an expensive – and often dirty – business. Studies and streamers can spend up to $ 30 million to get their nominees up on the podium. And Netflix is ​​said that really, really wants the best picture price that has so far avoided its efforts.

“‘Emilia Pérez’ is over for the best picture … It imploded,” the insider said. “It still has a shot for the best foreign film, it depends on whether the academy’s voters will punish the entire role crew for a woman’s mistake. It’s so sad and terrible for all the people who made the wonderful movie. “

Although gascón continues to be reopened by Mega Talent Agency UTA, Page Six has confirmed that she is now looking for crisis management.

Netflix did not pay for Gascón to fly to the United States from Spain for important days of campaigns, and several sources said she may not attend the case on February 23 in Los Angeles. In fact, she may not even attend Oscars on March 2nd – though she was in a New York Times ad last weekend and is in advertising boards along Sunset Boulevard, paid by Netflix.

“Do you think (screen actors Guild) will let her through the door on the red carpet?” Said the insider, “They do not admit her for their temple. “If she was smart, she wouldn’t go to Oscars, which really is, really so woke up.”

A source close to the film said: “At this point we really don’t know if Karla is going to Oscars. Netflix is ​​still actively fighting for all 13 nominations, the only thing different is that Karla does nothing. “

Netflix did not respond to requests for comment.

With regard to the AFI lunch, which had been pushed back because of the tragic La source fires, the film source pointed out that Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, sat with the “Pérez” team and said the seating had been well prepared advance. “Ted went between the two tables all day long,” the source said.

“It’s a long and difficult and expensive and upset path to Oscars,” the insider said. “It can be very ugly. During campaign, people can try to discredit their rivals. They find skeletons in the closet. “

No one had to look too hard to find gascóns that journalist Sarah Hagi discovered right in her X story.

The star – who made history as the first openly transcent artist to be nominated for best actress – tweeted that George Floyd was a “drug addict scammer” just days after he was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, and spurred nationwide protests.

“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. Next year instead of English we will have to teach Arabic, ”she wrote about her city in Spain.

Of Oscars 2021, she twitly twited: “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, Grim Galla. “She also called her fellow star Selena Gomez a” rich rat. “

Gascón, who deleted his X account, denied that she is racist in a tear -wise interview with CNN en Español. On Thursday, she apologized “everyone who has been injured along the way” in an Instagram post.

“She’s in a self -destructive approach that I can’t interfere with, and I really don’t understand why she continues,” her instructor Audiard told Deadline. “Why does she hurt herself? … I am not coming into contact with her, because right now she needs room to reflect and take responsibility for her actions. “

We have reached the GASCón for comment.

Hollywood Brums with questions about why Gascón’s social history was not monitored by Netflix, which now has a huge price team spanning all continents

“When you’re one, it’s not when people have to clean up your S – T,” said the head of a digital agency that charges about $ 10,000 to scrub social media stories. “One of the first things you do is a full revision … from social media to old accounts.”

Gascón “didn’t even think these tweets were harmful to her campaign and didn’t think to pay to make them delete. She didn’t think about hiding them, ”said the Hollywood insider. “How can she give Netflix the opportunity to spend millions and millions of dollars to promote her and not protect Netflix and herself? Netflix created a new life for her. She got paid $ 100,000 for the movie the effort was so high – how couldn’t you tackle this?

“Netflix has every right to be furious at her. They made her a star. “

The price of overcoming a nominated social media history is small compared to the cost of throwing Oscar voters through screenings, for your consideration ads-which can cost $ 25,000 per day. Pop and lavish parties.

A senior Hollywood Awards strategist who has worked with several Oscar-winning campaigns said Netflix could have spent anywhere between $ 20-30 million on her “Emilia Pérez” push.

The king of campaigns was once Harvey Weinstein, the now-convicted rape, who, along with his brother, Bob, won a number of Oscars with their company Miramax.

One was fooled in a now famous best picture match between “Saving Private Ryan” and Miramax’s “Shakespeare in Love” in 1999.

“For Shakespeare in Love, we used Playbook for the English Patient – Turboladet, on steroids,” said Mark Gill, then Miramax’s LA president, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “It was just absolutely murderous throughout. The hours were ridiculous and the demands were insane, just incredibly crazy things.

“Things reached a head when words spread that Harvey secretly was badmunghing ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for journalists,” left “Saving Private Ryan” director Spielberg Fuming, Gill added.

Other Harvey -tricks included postponing a press release, as the late Queen Elizabeth II had seen “King’s Speech,” which won the best picture in 2011. She hadn’t done so.

With Gascón all except of the race, Netflix is ​​said to put extra focus on “Emilia Pérez” Co-Star Saldaña, which wins in the category Best Support Actress.

Saldaña won the best actress at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday night, while “Emilia Pérez” Nabbed’s best foreign film.

Best actress is meant to be between Demi Moore for the “fabric” and Fernanda Torres in “I’m still here” -despite the revival of Torres wearing blackface in a Brazilian TV comedy -sketch from 17 years ago. (She apologized for that last month.)

And Timothée Chalamet’s “A Complete Unknown” can take advantage of “Emilia Pérez” scandal and Øs a best picture gong – variation predicted as much this week, while many other sites are betting on “Conclave.”

The recent La -Wild Fires, which cost some stars, instructors, writers and crew, their homes have thrown a shadow over the Oscars campaign season, with some wondering: Looking out and craving to chase prices right now?

Best actor nominated chalamet, firstly, has played his cards well – campaign outside LA in creative ways, just as his January 26 stunt as both host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live”, where he joked about his several awards showing Losses in his young career.

“The one thing that is not a complete unknown this price season where bad Timmy will win,” the strategist joked.