After laying low within the wake of a number of clumsy apology makes an attempt over her offensive posts, “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofia Gascón made her first award present look on Friday on the Paris-set Cesar ceremony the place Jacques Audiard’s Spanish language crime musical is vying for 12 nods.
Flanked by two males who seemed to be safety, Gascón bypassed the Cesar press line and went immediately contained in the Olympia auditorium.
Gascón, who lives in Spain, traveled to France for the Cesar, France’s equal to the Oscars, and can be going through co-star Zoe Saldana in the most effective actress class. In France, the film isn’t dealt with by Netflix however by the French firm Pathé which probably lined her journey bills.
As Selection reported this week, she’s additionally because of attend the Oscar ceremony on Sunday the place she is nominated for finest actress.
Gascón was within the thick of the awards race for her work in Audiard’s film till late January, when her marketing campaign – which was spearheaded by Netflix within the U.S. and the U.Okay. — imploded because of the discovery of controversial social media posts on X, through which she opined about Muslims, George Floyd and variety on the Oscars. Gascón went on to skip the Critics Selection Awards, the BAFTA Movie Awards and SAG Awards regardless of nominations in any respect three ceremonies.
Audiard nonetheless thanked Gascon throughout his acceptance speech on the BAFTA Awards the place “Emilia Perez” took dwelling the prize for finest movie not within the English language. “My pricey Zoe, my pricey Selena, Giorgini, Paul, Juliet, Camille, Clement, Julia and your crew, but in addition you, my pricey Karla Sofia, that I kiss. I’m deeply pleased with what we achieved collectively. Lengthy dwell ‘Emilia Pérez’!” mentioned Audiard. Upon successful finest supporting actress at BAFTAs, Saldaña additionally thanked the movie’s solid, together with Gascón.
Gascón grew to become the primary overtly trans actor win the most effective actress award (together with Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz) on the Cannes Movie Competition the place the film additionally gained the Jury Prize.
