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Zoe Saldana breaks silence on Emilia Perez costar Karla Sofia Gascon's 'racist' social media posts
Zoe Saldaña broke her silence after racist, homophobic, and anti-Islam tweets by her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week.
'I'm still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I'm sad,' Saldaña, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez, shared during a Q&A for the film in London on Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter; (Selena Gomez, Zoe, and Karla Sofía Gascón in November) In the tweets, Gascón criticized the diversity of the 2021 Oscars, called George Floyd a 'drug addict swindler' after his killing by a police officer in 2020, which sparked nationwide protests, and made disparaging comments about Islam, claiming the faith 'fails to comply with international rights.' The backlash grew when an X user pointed out that just months before sharing the comment, Gascón had reposted news about Emilia Pérez, where her name appeared alongside Gomez and Zoe Saldaña as potential cast members.
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