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Why Karla Sofía Gascón’s Twitter Scandal Spells Trouble for the Oscars Ceremony
The 'Emilia Pérez' star has years' worth of bigoted tweets. Oscar season has radically changed
If she was media trained by Netflix, it wasn’t effectively, as proven by her accusing associates of fellow nominee Fernanda Torres of acting in concert to undermine her or lashing out at queer critics of “Emilia Pérez.” In one interview, Gascón said, “Let me tell you: Being LGBT doesn’t make you less of an idiot.” But various of this season’s skirmishes, from a lengthy and ugly debate over the lack of intimacy coordinators on the set of “Anora” to the recent dramas over a past clip of Torres in blackface and the use of AI in the production of “The Brutalist,” have been turbocharged by the very medium Gascón used as her nasty id — social media. What might, under another set of circumstances, have been a fun and lively distraction from the ills of the wider world has become a referendum on one unhinged social-media user whose output looks a lot like that of newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump; what might have been, despite whatever qualms one may have with the film, an inspiring story of trans resilience has become an object lesson in the fact that marginalized people can still punch down, and viciously at that.
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