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Karla Sofía Gascón Thanked By ‘Emilia Pérez’ Director Jacques Audiard At BAFTA Awards
'Emilia Pérez' director Jacques Audiard sent a kiss and thanked Karla Sofía Gascón at the BAFTA Film Awards.
It follows Gascón’s controversial social media posts being unearthed by journalist Sarah Hagi last month, exploding a campaign in which the actress was expected to make history as a transgender award-winner for her role as a transitioning drug lord in Emilia Pérez. Gascón wrote that Islam was a “hotbed of infection for humanity,” described George Floyd as a “drug addict swindler” and said that the 2021 Oscars were an “ugly” “Afro-Korean festival” after triumphs for Minari and Judas and the Black Messiah. Elsewhere, Gascón pondered that she does not “understand so much about the world war against Hitler, he simply had his opinion about Jews,” and regularly used a Spanish word that translates as “faggot” in English.
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