Zoe Salda?a responds to Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive social media posts: ‘It makes me sad’
Emilia Pérez star and Best Supporting Actress frontrunner Zoe Salda?a distanced herself from costar Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive social media posts. “It makes me sad,” Salda?a said during a live event to support the film in London on Friday.
On Thursday, several inflammatory comments made by Gascón over the last five years resurfaced online — including offensive remarks about Muslims, George Floyd, and the 2021 Oscars when Daniel Kaluuya and Youn Yuh-Jung were among the winners. Gascón eventually deactivated her X account and released two separate apology statements, one through Netflix and one directly to The Hollywood Reporter. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón said in a statement sent to media outlets via Netflix. “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well, and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life, I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
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Speaking on Friday at an event alongside the film’s Oscar-nominated director and writer, Jacques Audiard, and songwriters and composers Camille and Clément Ducol, Salda?a was asked if she wanted to address the audience amid a “difficult time.”
“I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad,” she said. “It makes me really sad because I don’t support, and I don’t have any tolerance for, any negative rhetoric towards people of any group. I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part, that is a part, of this film, and my experience and my interactions with them were about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it just saddens me.”
She continued, “It saddens me that we are having to face this setback right now. But I’m happy that you’re all here and that you’re all still showing up for Emilia because the message that this film has is so powerful and the change that it can bring forward to communities that are marginalized day in and day out is important. And all that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. That’s all we can say right now. Thank you.”
The Hollywood Reporter published the video of Salda?a’s comments.
Salda?a is widely expected to win her first Oscar for Emilia Pérez. The actress received one of the film’s record 13 nominations (the most ever for a movie not in the English language).
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