Netflix Seems To Be Really Regretting Hitching Its Wagon To Trans Actor Karla Sofia Gascón

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By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN In the midst of a growing controversy over her former offensive tweets, Netflix is distanced from the star of “Emilia Pérez”, Karla Sofía Gascón. Gascón made history last month as she became the first openly transgender actress nominated for an Oscar in a performance category. Weeks later, some of her former tweets came to light in which she ridiculed Muslim culture, George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police an…

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Netflix Seems To Be Really Regretting Hitching Its Wagon To Trans Actor Karla Sofia Gascón

Netflix has distanced themselves from trans "Emilia Pérez" star Karla Sofia Gascón and has scrubbed images of Gascón from their Oscars campaign.

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The Spanish actress has been nominated for an Oscar for her role as a drug lord in the film Emilia Pérez. Last week, old Islamophobic and racist tweets surfaced.

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It's safe to say that we won't see Emilia Perez star Carla Sofia Gascon again at any pre-Oscar event, and her participation in the season's main film award is questionable. Netflix, without hesitation, cut off any communication with the actress, contacting only her agent if necessary, and, worst of all, refused to pay her overhead costs.

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The Oscar career of Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón has been shivering since a few days ago, many tweets published in recent years in which, with slur and black humor dyes, the actress expressed racist and aggressive comments. Tweets (now deleted) in which she declared that "Islam is becoming a source of infection for humanity" or referred to George Floyd, the American citizen murdered by the police of Minneapolis in 2020, as a "swindling dru…

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Netflix drops Spanish star of 'Emilia Pérez' from Oscar campaign after offensive tweets - Spain in English

Offensive historic tweets posted by Karla Sofía Gascón, the transgender Spanish star of the Oscar-nominated film Emilia Pérez, have led to a week of fallout and left the film’s awards campaign in disarray. Streaming giant Netflix, the distributor for the film, has also removed the actress from its promotional campaigns leading up to the Oscar awards ceremony in early March. Emilia Pérez is a Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug cartel b…