Transger’s best actress nominated for Oscar apologizes for old tweets criticizing George Floyd, Islam
Karla Sofía Gascón, First Open Trans Actor To be nominated for an Oscar, they apologized and expelled X after several controversial tweets appeared.
Gascón, who is currently a candidate for the “Best Actress” Award after starring in the movie “Emilia Pérez”, faced back posts for old posts on Islam and George Floyd.
In one post 2020. He allegedly examined and translated from Spanish Variety magazine, Gascón shared a photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant and wrote: “Islam is marvelous, without any macism. Women respect, and when they respect so much, they remain with a little square holes on their faces that their eyes are visible and their mouths, but only, but only If she behaves.
This is not the only post of performers to criticize Islam, however, as Gascón also suggested in 2020, “until I ban the religions that go against European values and violates human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of the worship of worship, we want the end of the part of the huge the problems we face. “
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Oscar -nominated Karl Sofía Gascón threw out the X platform after controversial posts appeared. ((Photo Medios Y Media/Getty Images))
The performer called on other religions by name, writing in the post 2021: “I am so tormented by so much of this part of this Sh
In the 2020 post, shortly after the death of George Floyd, the performer wrote: “I really think very few people ever worried about George Floyd, drug addict, but his death once again showed that there are people who exist and there are people who They are further considered to be blacks without rights and consider the police officers. “
Nominated for academy awards He also criticized Oscar in 2021: “More and more #oscars look like a ceremony of independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching the Afro-Korean festival, a demonstration of the Black Lives Matters or 8m. In addition, an ugly, ugly gala.”
Since then, Gascón seems to have rejected the X platform and apologized for controversial statements, narrates Hollywood reporter in Spanish, “I’m sorry, but I can no longer allow this hatred and misinformation campaign to affect even my family or me, so at their request I close the account on X.”
The performer also claimed that “he threatened death, offended, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion.”
Karla Sofía Gascón is the first to open a trans actor who is nominated for an Academy Award. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
“I want to acknowledge the conversation about my past posts on the social media that have caused the injury,” Gascón said in a statement provided by Netflix. “Like someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering too well and I’m deeply sorry for the pain I have inflicted on. I have struggled for a better world all my life. I believe that light will always triumph over the darkness.”
Fox News Digital He reached out to Gascón’s administration and did not receive an immediate response.
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