Emilia Pérez actress Karla Sofía Gascón apologises for offensive tweets, deactivates X account

She also made at least a dozen Islamophobic tweets over the years, calling for a ban of the religion that she said went against European values and violated human rights. In another post, she said that Islam was “an infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured”. She also used a racial slur to describe Muslims in Spain, her native country, and criticised how Muslim women dress.

The offending tweets stirred up controversy after journalist Sarah Hagi took screenshots and shared many of them, saying that “straight up, have never seen tweets this racist from someone actively campaigning to win an ACADEMY AWARD”.

“This is all from the star of a movie that is campaigning on its progressive values, you really gotta laugh,” Hagi added.

According to a tweet seen by Variety, Gascón also spoke poorly of the 2021 Oscars ceremony: “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M,” the actress reportedly wrote in Spanish, referencing a feminist strike. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”

Gascón deleted the posts after the backlash and as of Friday had deactivated her entire X account.

Earlier this month, Gascón was nominated for a best actress Oscar, becoming the first out trans actress to be nominated in an acting category.

She won Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award last year along with her co-stars, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz. Gascón was also nominated for a Golden Globe this year, but lost to Demi Moore for The Substance.

In the musical movie Emilia Pérez, Gascón plays a Mexican cartel leader who gets help from a lawyer to transition to being a woman. The movie received 13 Oscar nominations, including for best picture.