Karla Sofía Gascón is apologizing as soon as once more.
The Emilia Pérez star took to Instagram on Thursday, February 6, to difficulty a recent apology after controversial tweets shared by the actress resurfaced not too long ago and overshadowed the film’s Oscar marketing campaign. (Gascón herself is nominated for Greatest Actress.)
Whereas Gascón, 52, initially apologized for the posts in an announcement by Netflix, the movie’s distributor, she later claimed that among the remarks attributed to her had been taken out of context or fabricated.
Amid the scandal, Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard advised Deadline on Wednesday, February 5, that Gascón was taking a “self-destructive strategy” and questioned, “Why is she harming herself?”
Getty Photographs (2) Karla Sofía Gascón reportedly trashed her Emilia Pérez costar Selena Gomez in a since-deleted social media put up. In a now-deleted put up from 2022, shared by way of X, Gascón, 52, commented on the rumored feud between Gomez, 32, and Hailey Bieber, in response to The Latin Occasions. Gascón allegedly quoted a photograph shared by the […]
“Why? I don’t perceive it, and what I don’t perceive about this too is why she’s harming individuals who had been very near her,” he added, referring to Gascón’s costars Zoe Saldaña, who can also be nominated for an Oscar, and Selena Gomez. “I’m pondering on this factor of how hurting others, of how she’s hurting the crew and all these individuals who labored so extremely exhausting on this movie. I’m pondering of myself, I’m pondering of Zoe and Selena. I simply don’t perceive why she’s persevering with to hurt us.”
On Thursday, Gascón shared by way of Instagram, “Following Jacques’ interview that I perceive, I made a decision, for the movie, for Jacques, for the forged, for the unbelievable crew who deserves it, for the attractive journey all of us had collectively, to let the work speak for itself, hoping my silence will permit the movie to be appreciated for what it’s, a gorgeous ode to like and distinction.”
“I sincerely apologize to everybody who has been damage alongside the best way,” she added alongside a photograph of the Emilia Pérez forged and crew on the movie’s Cannes premiere final 12 months.
Emilia Pérez is nominated for 13 awards at this 12 months’s Oscars, together with a Greatest Actress nod for Gascón.
For her half, Saldaña, who’s campaigning for Greatest Supporting Actress, advised Selection on Wednesday that the controversy made her really feel “unhappy.”
“Time and time once more, that’s the phrase as a result of that’s the sentiment that has been residing in my chest since every little thing occurred,” the Oscar nominee stated.
“I’m additionally disillusioned. I can’t communicate for different individuals’s actions. All I can attest to is my expertise, and by no means in 1,000,000 years did I ever consider that we’d be right here,” she added.
