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Karla Sofía Gascón’s Off-the-Rails Reaction to Twitter Controversy Has Made Her the Donald Trump of Oscar Season
After her CNN interview, the "Emilia Pérez" Oscar nominee calls to mind Donald Trump's style, and his talent for shifting the blame
But a viewer in a generous frame of mind can see in the mere fact of Emilia’s transition, and the project she puts her cartel-obtained resources toward afterward — on top of Gascón’s presence as a pathbreaking trans Oscar nominee — as a rebuke to the politics of prejudice emanating from President Donald Trump. Both contained within them apologies, but were also larded with baffling asides (as when Gascón, said on CNN that her kindness extended to the animal kingdom, as she refuses to kill spiders in her home) as well as her florid, conspiratorial claims that she is being purposefully sabotaged. That a trans European performer best-known up to this point for her work in Mexican telenovelas is the one whose rhetorical style (and whose stated a-pox-on-every-house political commitments) most mirrors the president’s is one of those little ironies that makes life interesting.
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