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‘Such a bummer’: Netflix responds to Emilia Pérez fallout
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria laments impact of fallout over Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweets, but declines to confirm whether company will vet social media accounts in the future
Speaking to Matthew Belloni on The Town podcast, Netflix’s chief content officer, Bela Bajaria, addressed the backlash to star Karla Sofía Gascón’s resurfaced history of offensive social media posts, which is casting a pall over the record-breaking 13 Oscar nominations clocked up by Jacques Audiard’s musical. Senior publicists expressed concern to the Guardian last week about internal handling of the affair, with some suggesting the company had abandoned its duty of care to a relative industry newcomer. “If Netflix boss Ted Sarandos,” said Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos, “who’s spent millions campaigning for awards for the film, finds out this social media history was known, and not surfaced to him by anyone on his team … watch this space.”
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