Karla Sofía Gascón apologizes for old social media posts on George Floyd, Islam : NPR

Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, who starred within the Oscar-nominated movie Emilia Pérez, is going through a backlash after outdated, derogatory posts on X, previously Twitter, resurfaced Thursday morning.

Lots of the posts, which had been written in Spanish and shared by author Sarah Hagi in a collection of screenshots with Google translations on X, straight vilify Muslims. One put up calls Islam a “hotbed of an infection for humanity.” One other claims that Islam is “incompatible with Western values.”

The dates of the tweets vary from 2016 to the early 2020s. Gascón deactivated her account on X after on-line customers resurfaced the posts.

In an announcement to TheWrap, Sue Obeidi, the director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Hollywood bureau, mentioned she was disturbed by the posts.

“Deleted or not, these tweets are hurtful, offensive, and stunning, most particularly coming from somebody who’s a member of one other susceptible neighborhood. Muslims are a part of each neighborhood, together with the transgender neighborhood,” Obeidi mentioned.

Different posts from Gascón that resurfaced on-line attacked China, referring to COVID vaccines as “the Chinese language vaccine, [which] other than the obligatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat that strikes its hand, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 phone strains and one euro to your first managed buy.”

In one other resurfaced thread, Gascón feedback on the 2020 homicide of George Floyd, claiming that only a few folks cared about him. She additionally calls Floyd a “drug addict swindler.”

“That is all from the star of a film that’s campaigning on its progressive values,” Hagi, who first shared the anti-Islam tweets on X, mentioned on the platform.

Gascón, 52, performs a trans cartel boss because the titular character in Netflix’s Emilia Pérez. She made Oscars historical past as the primary overtly trans actress nominated for an Academy Award.

“I wish to acknowledge the dialog round my previous social media posts which have precipitated damage,” Gascón mentioned in an announcement from Netflix. “As somebody in a marginalized neighborhood, I do know this struggling all too effectively, and I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve precipitated ache. All my life, I’ve fought for a greater world. I consider mild will all the time overcome darkness.”