A bombshell new report claims that Karla Sofía Gascón is being quietly removed from Netflix's Oscar campaign for Emilia Pérez following the controversies surrounding her old X posts (formerly tweets).
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón was originally expected to fly into LA sometime this week to begin awards campaigning at the AFI Awards luncheon, Critics Choice Awards, and the PGA Awards, to name a few.
However, after her recent social media controversies, Netflix reportedly has no desire to front Gascón's transportation costs from Spain or locally, her accommodations, or to facilitate her attendance at events.
"Tensions are said to be high between Gascón and the streamer," reads THR's report. Some events, including the Santa Barbara Film Festival, were considering canceling their Emilia Pérez events entirely if Gascón didn't back out.
Gascón's name has also been removed from email blasts and ad reads promoting the film for awards, and there are reported plans to update billboards of Gascón with other Emilia Pérez cast members.
Karla Sofía Gascón in 'Emilia Pérez.'
Netflix
It's been a rocky road for the controversial movie musical. Emilia Pérez quickly garnered critical acclaim upon its release and made history with its 13 Oscar nominations, with Gascón becoming the first ever out transgender person to be nominated for an acting Oscar, cementing her place in LGBTQ+ history.
However, the tides started to turn for Gascón in late January when she accused a fellow Best Actress nominee — Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres for her work in I'm Still Here — of having a social media team that coordinated an attack on her as a trans woman and on Emilia Pérez as a film. That accusation is false, as the social media response she's received is overwhelmingly from film critics (from all around the world) and Brazilian fans who supported Torres's campaign to win the Oscar for the benefit of Brazilian culture overall... but who were not paid or linked to any social media team promoting the film.
Those accusations about Torres and her Oscar campaign were subsequently followed by a flood of social media posts shared by Gascón in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s — culminating in explosive reports from various publications. Translated posts revealed that Gascón had controversial opinions regarding Islam, Muslims, George Floyd, the singer Adele, and more.
Gascón apologized for the posts in press statements. "I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt," she told Variety. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life, I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness."
She later deactivated her social media account entirely. "I'm sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect me and my family, so at their request I am closing my account on X," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion. I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything."
THR reports that Gascón's responses were made "without consultation or coordination with Netflix."
To be clear, Gascón is still in the running at the Oscars for her starring role in Emilia Pérez, and she has no plans to remove herself from the race. Earlier this week, she told Juan Carlos Arciniegas for CNN en Españolthat she "cannot renounce a nomination because what I have done is a job, and what is being valued is my acting work. I cannot renounce a nomination, either, because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone. I am not a racist nor am I anything that all these people have taken upon themselves to try to make others believe that I am."