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None of This Had to Happen
Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón’s social-media flameout is burying what should’ve been this year’s prevailing Oscar headline.
Gascón is the first trans woman to compete for Best Actress, and for the first time ever, four actors of Latin American descent — Colman Domingo, Fernanda Torres, Zoe Saldaña, and Monica Barbaro — have received simultaneous acting nominations. But we can’t even talk about this remarkable, paradigm-shifting progress because it seems no one bothered to media train a certain lead actress who now seems to be on a one-woman mission to find out how many times she can cancel herself before someone sticks out a long cane, hooks it around her waist, and drags her off the internet. GLAAD called the movie “ profoundly retrograde.” Meanwhile, Mexican moviemakers and critics have been less than thrilled to see the country’s drug war and mass disappearances reduced to fodder for a musical that sincerely tries to humanize a cartel boss who earns her redemption by … starting a NGO.
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