Selena Gomez is opening up concerning the controversy surrounding her Emilia Pérez costar, Karla Sofía Gascón.
Gomez was requested how she was dealing with the drama engulfing the hit Netflix musical throughout a Q&A on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition on Sunday, February 9.
“Thanks. I’m actually good,” Gomez, 32, responded, per footage shared by way of X by The Hollywood Reporter. “Among the magic has disappeared however I select to proceed to be pleased with what I’ve achieved. I’m simply grateful and dwell with no regrets.”
Persevering with to indicate her help for Emilia Pérez, which is nominated for 13 Oscars at this yr’s Academy Awards, Gomez added, “I’d do that film again and again if I may.”
Gascón, 52, has confronted backlash after controversial tweets shared by the actress resurfaced not too long ago, overshadowing the film’s Oscar marketing campaign. The Spanish actress has been criticized for remarks made concerning the Muslim group, the dying of George Floyd and even an obvious dig at Gomez.
Whereas the Greatest Actress Oscar nominee initially apologized for the posts in a press release by means of Netflix, the movie’s distributor, she later claimed that a number of the remarks attributed to her had been taken out of context or fabricated.
Amid the scandal, Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard advised Deadline final week that Gascón was taking a “self-destructive strategy” and questioned, “Why is she harming herself?”
“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 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.”
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On Thursday, February 6, Gascón shared a recent apology 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 discuss for itself, hoping my silence will enable the movie to be appreciated for what it’s, an attractive ode to like and distinction,” she shared.
“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 yr.
For her half, Saldaña, who’s up for Greatest Supporting Actress on the Oscars, advised Selection final week that the controversy made her really feel “unhappy.”
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“Time and time once more, that’s the phrase as a result of that’s the sentiment that has been dwelling in my chest since the whole lot occurred,” the Oscar nominee stated.
“I’m additionally upset. I can’t converse for different folks’s actions. All I can attest to is my expertise, and by no means in one million years did I ever consider that we’d be right here,” she added.
