Karla Sofía Gascón apologizes for previous tweets, says she is ‘deeply sorry to those I have caused pain’

NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the film “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her previous posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that known as George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

“As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” the actor stated in a press release through Netflix, the place her movie might be streamed. “All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”

Gascón made historical past as the primary transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for greatest actress, serving to make “Emilia Pérez” probably the most nominated movie going into subsequent month’s present. Netflix can be hoping the controversy doesn’t derail the movie’s Oscar probabilities.

Outdated posts from Gascon’s account on Twitter resurfaced this week, some going way back to 2016, that took purpose at Muslims’ costume, language and tradition in her native Spain. She additionally instructed that Islam be banned.

And fewer than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, prompting a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism, Gascón provided her evaluation of Floyd as a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.

Gascón was an everyday in Mexican telenovelas earlier than transitioning in 2018. In “Emilia Pérez,” she performs each a menacing cartel kingpin and the lady who emerges after the kingpin fakes his personal dying, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to assist her reunite together with her spouse (Selena Gomez) and their kids.

Outdated tweets have come again to hang-out celebrities earlier than, embrace James Gunn, Trevor Noah and Blake Shelton. All have rebounded, with Gunn getting rehired to direct the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie for Marvel and the upcoming “Superman” reboot; Noah is internet hosting this weekend’s Grammy Awards and Shelton was for years a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”