The week wherein Karla Sofia Gascón misplaced her Oscar (and a few for ‘Emilia Pérez’) and put his profession towards the abyss | Culture | EUROtoday
Nothing and nobody is freed from stones in Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweets. Neither the “Moors”, nor Catalonia (with the “Pelanas” of Puigdemont), nor Barbie and his “Gilipolz” of promotion, nor the “drug traffick He has been his wife in Emilia Pérez. The series of ancient X messages that began to recover on Thursday on social networks – which she never deleted, had simply buried after many other hundreds – show a facet of the Madrid actress that goes far beyond the championship and grace politically incorrect that he has shown during the promotion of the film. At 52, after dozens of diverse papers for decades, and now as an Oscar nominated for their role in Emilia Pérez And as the first trans interpreter to achieve that achievement, Gascón has been authorized to comment on many issues, and has always led by a flag that no one was going to shut her up in his overwhelming sincerity.
However, it has not been the opinions of this campaign, but others, which have buried almost all their possibilities of taking an Oscar award on March 2, and many, who knows if all, of those who had their film. We will also have to see what invoice they happen to his possible future career in Hollywood, a place where political correction remains a very important part of the game.
That is perhaps the key to the matter: that Hollywood is another league, a game that you have to know the rules. Gascón had played them slightly, but at the moment of truth, they matter. Also for the 10,000 members of the Film Academy, who will vote between February 11 and 18, and for those who seem less likely to never do so for her and the French drug traffickers of Jacques Audiard (which Netflix bought to distribute in USA). Although a few weeks ago she did not head the bets, now the actress seems to stay in the last position of the listings. And Gascón is, in every way, Emilia Pérez, protagonist and soul of the film. The gap in the reputation of the film is irreparable. His presence in the awards season, uncomfortable.
Gascón, Netflix and their teams have activated the crisis mode, after three incidents that leave Emilia Pérez With authentic difficulties in the Oscar race, in which he left as a favorite with 13 candidacies, the most nominated non -English language film in history. The episode of the tweets is the last, although before another took place, in which Gascon accused, in an interview with Folha de S. Pauloto the Brazilian film I’m still here Already those around its protagonist, Fernanda Torres, also nominated for statuette, to “demerit” his work. “I see many people who work in the environment of Fernanda Torres who speak badly of me and Emilia Pérez ”, said. That was Wednesday, and the actress had to send a statement of apologies. That day also the third controversy emerged: an Audiard video ensuring that Spanish was “a language of rising nations, a language of modest, poor, migrants.” I did not say it in a mockery or aggressive tone, and beyond the barely 10 seconds of that phrase the entire video has not been seen, but the very successful words of the director became viral.

None of these skates are new: the accusations against the Brazilian film are from January 21, Audiard’s words, five months ago, and the tweets, years ago. But all – cautious, reconciliábulos of the awards season or a tracing of the script of Conclavewho knows – have come together, in three days, dynamiting the career of a film that was already in the spotlight after its premiere in Mexico, where it develops and where it has been badly received. Even so, the awkwardness surprises in the final stretch of the promotion. And the fundamental question: with Gascón turned into a global star, did anyone supervise those old tweets? No publicist in Spain (his country of origin), France (where the film is produced) or the US (where he is triumphing) reviewed the messages of someone who until a flicker was not famous and that (he believed that) could say any thing in networks? Nobody He written backward?
No one did prior control of damage, and the posterior is not giving great results. After the tweets, Gascón has issued a statement with apologies relatively nuanced by the idea that he is living an hatred campaign that, as he has been repeating months, goes against her and against his film. He closes his account, he asks for forgiveness, but he talks about his words “of context” and that he is not responsible for that: “It is evident that there’s something very darkish behind.” On Saturday, something past the heat of the moment, he apologized on Instagram before his almost 200,000 followers, where he recognized: “The types are my important defect.” He assures that he is not racist and that he has “tried and convicted with out trial.” Even so, for her those hundreds of messages have been misrepresented and invented: “They have created post as if it were [sic] Insulted even to my companions, things I wrote to glorify as if they were criticism, jokes as if they were reality, words that without the background only seem hate. ” In situations like this, the usual thing is to bend your head and pull forward. But she has not chosen that path, and that in the hills of the cinema is not understood.
In the United States, the reactions are multiple. In a country and in a sociocultural scenario such as the Oscar, with everything measured, this generates, more than surprise, rejection. The vice president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in her office in Hollywood, Sue Obeidi, affirms to this newspaper that “that is very disappointing.” “Deleted or not, these tweets are painful, offensive and shocking, particularly from somebody a part of one other susceptible group,” says this lobby, which represents the Muslim community throughout the country and whose office in Hollywood advises to avoid the Stereotypes in audiovisual. “You need an immersion in history of Islam. When Europe was in the Middle Ages, Muslims were busy discovering mathematics, science and medical instruments. Learn, woman. ”

Prize expectations for Emilia Pérez In the four exact weeks missing for the big prizes of the season they are also deflating. The film analyst in Boxofficesettled in Los Angeles, Pau Brunet, even goes further: “I’m nearly sure that this film goes empty.” For him, he can go from 13 to 0 without difficulty on the night of March 2. “I think he lost bellows, a while ago, he has been going down in being seen as the great movie against Trump. When they were the nominations he may enter there, but now no longer. ”
The specialized media have also stopped dancing the water. In VarietyDean of the film press in the city, just days ago they were excited about Netflix star feature film, but from Wednesday to Friday they have been dedicating their opening items, and none in positive. Of his 10 most read news on Saturday, three were about Gascón. One of them, especially critical, affirms that having it at the Oscar gala is a problem, closets its apologies of “pathetic”, accuses it of “exceptional lack of judgment, proportion or good style” and ensures that “it has change into The defining determine of a prize race distinguished by being surprisingly disagreeable. ”

Every yr, the journal prepares spherical tables wherein the nominees really feel collectively simply days earlier than the Oscars. “Are they going to invite it? No? No one will want to be in that photo, ”says Brunet, who believes that the change after all Variety “He has not been able to stop it or the Netflix machinery, there is an editorial group that has sat and made a decision.” And that’s exactly the signifies that teachers learn, extra now, when 10 days are lacking to start out voting. Other awards, such because the Bafta, the place Gascon can be nominated, they’re already midway within the issuance of votes; It is inconceivable to know the way this earthquake will fall.
Who can have an effect on, and far, is Zoe Saldaña. If there was a secure statuette for the movie, it was his as greatest distribution actress, for a task that, as she has stated, leads “all her life waiting.” Now he has an much more troublesome one: positioning himself with out attacking his personal movie, however both supporting his co -star. After a marketing campaign the place the actresses have appeared very shut and so they have demonstrated very affectionate with one another, with praises and hugs in private and non-private occasions, on Friday Saldaña confronted it for the primary time at a spherical desk on the movie in London, wherein he was exactly anticipated to Gascon, who didn’t attend. There he declared to be “processing everything” and feeling “very sad”, since he doesn’t “tolerate any negative rhetoric about people from any group.” “I can only witness my experience with each individual who is part of this movie, and […] It was inclusive and racial, cultural and gender collaboration. ” He did not even pronounce his companion’s title.
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