Transgender Best Actress Nominee Karla Sofía Gascón Apologizes for Tweets Criticizing Islam, George Floyd

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'Emilia Pérez' star Karla Sofía Gascón issues apology about past social media posts

"Emilia Pérez" star Karla Sofía Gascón issued an apology Thursday after online users resurfaced her past posts on social media in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars.

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Best Actress nominee faces backlash over unearthed social media posts about Islam, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars

Karla Sofía Gascón is facing backlash after social media users discovered a trove of controversial tweets about Islam, including one that compared the religion to “a hotbed of infection for inhumanity.” Gascón, who is nominated for best actress at the upcoming Academy Awards for her role in “Emilia Pérez,” is the first openly trans actor to earn an Oscar nomination.

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First Trans-Identifying Man Up For Best Actress Oscar Deletes Posts About George Floyd, Muslims

Actress Karla Sofía Gascón is facing backlash as old racist and Islamophobic posts resurface and go viral. “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys without rights and consider policemen to be assassins,” a later post added, Variety noted.

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Transgender Best Actress Oscar Nominee Karla Sofia Gascón Accuses Rival Nominee's Team of Smear Campaign
Netflix’s Emilia Pérez breakout star Karla Sofia Gascón pointed the finger at the team behind Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, the star of the political thriller I’m Still Here. “I don’t like that there’�s a social media team that works around these people that are attempting to discredit my work and my film,’’ she said, according to multiple reports.
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Oscar Nominee Karla Sofía Gascón's Anti-Islam Posts Have Resurfaced
Karla Sofía Gascón made history as the first openly trans actor to be nominated for Best Actress at the awards. The Spanish actor called for a "ban" of Islam in "the West" In one 2016 post, she called the religion "a religion"
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Karla Sofía Gascón Apologizes For Resurfaced Tweets—All The ‘Emilia Pérez’ Controversies, Explained
Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated star of “Emilia Pérez,” issued an apology Thursday evening after years-old tweets resurfaced. The tweets were largely surfaced by writer and X user Sarah Hagi on Thursday, which quickly garnered thousands of reposts. In one old tweet posted in Spanish and translated by USA TODAY, Gascão said: “Sorry, is it just me or are there more Muslims in Spain?
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Oscar-nominated ‘Emilia Perez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón issues apology over historic tweets
Karla Sofía Gascón has issued an apology after controversial social media posts about George Floyd and Islam surfaced yesterday. In one post from 2020, she wrote: “Is it just my impression or is there more muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels”
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Oscar-Nominated Emilia Pérez Star Apologises After Offensive Social Media Posts Are Unearthed
Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón apologises for past social media posts. She criticised Islam, the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd. She said: 'I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain' She added: 'All my life I have fought for a better world'
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Transgender Actress Karla Sofía Gascón Under Fire For Old Social Media Posts On George Floyd, Islam & More
Gascón is the first openly transgender actor to earn an Academy Award-nomination for best actress after her role in Emilia Pérez. The actress underwent transitional surgery in 2018. One of her posts took a direct shot at Islam: "Islam is marvelous, without any machismo"
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Karla Sofía Gascón apologizes for past controversial posts
“I want to say sorry for what I’ve done,” the actor says. “I’m very sorry.” “It’s not my fault,’ he adds, “it was my mistake.’’ ‘I want the world to know that we’re all in this together’
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Transgender Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón under fire for 'hurtful' anti-Islam social media posts
Transgender Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón under fire for 'hurtful' anti-Islam social media posts. Her resurfaced posts criticized Islam, the Oscars, and George Floyd. The posts were dug up by Muslim writer Sarah Hagi and translated into English by Variety.
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Trans-Identifying ‘Emilia Perez’ Actor Apologizes For Old Anti-Woke Tweets
Karla Sofia Gascón has apologized for old tweets that some deemed offensive. The tweets covered topics such as George Floyd, Muslims, and diversity at the Oscars. The 52-year-old was the first man to be nominated for a Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards.
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Karla Sofía Gascón Posts Lengthy Apology, Defends Tweets “That Without Background Only Appear Hateful”: “I Am Not Racist”
Emilia Pérez actress Karla Sofía Gascón has issued an apology for her past bigoted tweets. In a lengthy Instagram post, she also defended her posts as taken out of context. She also seems to imply that the controversy is a smear campaign for her to not “win anything and sink.”
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‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón issues apology for resurfaced racist tweets
Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón has apologized for years-old racist tweets. The tweets resurfaced on Thursday and quickly sparked death threats. The 52-year-old Spanish actress is the first openly transgender performer nominated for an acting Oscar. She attributed some of her tweets to “ignorance or pure mistake”
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‘Emilia Perez’ actress’ unhinged tweets are a huge blow to her movie’s Oscar chances
Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is the first transgender performer to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. She was called out for offensive tweets from as recently as four years ago. In Spanish, she suggested Islam should be banned. She also called George Floyd a “drug addict swindler”
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