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Zoe Saldaña Addresses Karla Sofía Gascón Controversy As She Campaigns For ‘Emilia Pérez’: “It Makes Me Really Sad”
Zoe Saldaña is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in 'Emilia Perez.'
The fallout from Emilia Perez actor Karla Sofía Gascón’s past racist and Islamophobic tweets is ongoing, and this evening, one of her co-stars, Zoe Saldaña, coyly addressed the scandal for the first time during a Q&A session in London. Gascón deleted her X account and published a second apology this afternoon in which she said she was “deeply sorry” for old posts in which she voiced extreme and racist views on Muslims, diversity at the Oscars, the LGBTQ+ movement, and the death of George Floyd. Per a Google translation of Spanish, she wrote: “What a disservice all these trans and LGB clowns do… by following the discourse of the extreme right, the ones with no one and all kinds of reactionaries.They remind me of black people with whips making their brothers pick cotton.
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