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‘They chucked her under the bus – then reversed it back over her’: has the Emilia Pérez backlash gone too far?

Karla Sofía Gascón’s precipitous fall from Oscars frontrunner to industry pariah has left many in Hollywood rethinking their tactics – and questioning their ethics

“So now the denouncing of her has blurred into a vicious glee at this absolute rube who doesn’t know how to apologise properly or shut up – it’s like Jade Goody syndrome, and it’s the very quality that people found refreshing about Gascón when she was being unfiltered and tearful in interviews, or when accepting the best actress award at Cannes for herself and her co-stars.” Gilbey, who is the author of a Faber book of queer cinema out later this year, agrees: “The sort of gloating, protracted attacks that she’s receiving now would be distasteful whomever it was happening to, but we shouldn’t pretend that everyone would get the same treatment in her situation or that marginalised people aren’t held to different standards. “I’d like to think anyone who made the sort of remarks that she has would receive the appropriate level of censure, but it’s no effort to think of straight cis men who have come back to awards and nominations and sellout tours after a year or two on the naughty step.”

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