If you’re paying attention to the movies, you’ve probably already seen Emilia Pérez or at least heard a lot about it. The much-praised film is currently in the news because of the scandal surrounding one of its stars, Karla Sofía Gascón, whose controversial tweets from 2020–21 about Muslims, George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars have resurfaced. They’re generating such a backlash that Gascón is being asked if she plans to “renounce” her Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in Emilia Pérez.
Here are the most inflammatory tweets in question:
“I’m Sorry, Is it just my impression or is there more muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.”
“I am so sick of so much of this shit, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of all the fucking beliefs of morons that violate human rights.”
“I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. . . . They’re all wrong.”
“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. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
“The Chinese vaccine, apart from the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 telephone lines and one euro for your first controlled purchase.”
Gascón has made tearful apologies in interviews while at the same time denying that she is racist or in any way prejudiced, arguing that her tweets are being misunderstood or taken out of context. She has deactivated…
Auteur: Eileen Jones
