Emilia Perez actor Karla Sofia Gascon deletes X account after backlash to racist, Islamophobic tweets | Hollywood

The controversy round Karla Sofia Gascon’s tweets

Gascon just lately confronted backlash after X customers found tweets from 2020 and 2021 that had controversial views on Muslims, George Floyd, BTS, Adele, and variety on the Oscars, amongst different issues.

Later, in an announcement to Selection, she apologised, saying, “I wish to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have brought on harm. As somebody in a marginalized neighborhood, I do know this struggling all too properly and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve brought on ache. All my life I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider gentle will at all times conquer darkness.”

Amongst her a number of resurfaced tweets, Gascon critiqued the variety of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. “Increasingly more the #Oscars are trying like a ceremony for unbiased and protest movies, I did not know if I used to be watching an Afro-Korean pageant, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Aside from that, an unpleasant, ugly gala,” she wrote on X.

She additionally referred to as George Floyd a “drug addict swindler” after he was killed by a police officer in 2020 and impressed protests across the U.S. She additionally made disparaging remarks about singer Adele’s weight reduction, and the bodily appearances of the members of Ok-pop band BTS.

Who’s Karla Sofia Gascon?

Gascon made historical past as the primary transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for finest actress, serving to make Emilia Perez essentially the most nominated movie going into subsequent month’s present. Gascon was an everyday in Mexican telenovelas earlier than transitioning in 2018. In Emilia Perez, she performs each a menacing cartel kingpin and the girl who emerges after the kingpin fakes his personal loss of life, Emilia Perez.

(With companies inputs)