'It's clear there was a campaign against me': Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon on her derailed Oscar chances

'It's clear there was a campaign against me': Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon on her derailed Oscar chances

Mexican actress Karla Sofia Gascon has broken her silence after a Twitter storm derailed her Oscar hopes for her role in 'Emilia Perez.'

The actress reappears after the controversy of racist tweets and after Netflix took her away from Emilia Pérez's promotion for the presentation of the reissue of her book What's Left of Me Read

“Happy for some things, fucked up by others. It’s content at times, irritated by so many more.” This is how actress Karla Sofía Gascón declared herself this Thursday before the group of journalists invited in Madrid to the presentation of What’s Left of Me, a review of the book of memoirs she published in 2018 in Mexico, titled then Karsia, which will arrive at the bookstores next March 25 edited by Almuzara.

The publishing house Almuzara published on March 25 the autobiography of the actress 'What's Left of Me', who wondered: "How many times do I have to apologize for a 2016 tweet?"

The film has won numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Awards, and was nominated for 13 Academy Awards this year, winning Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana) and Best Original Song. Rita (Saldana), a lawyer in Mexico City, is trying to save her husband, Manuel, the boss of a drug cartel.

'I'm Less Racist Than Gandhi:' Emilia Perez's Karla Sofía Gascón Is Defending Herself in the Wildest Way

Published: Mar 21, 2025 05:49 pm It’s been a wild ride since Karla Sofía Gascón became the first trans woman nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars. People celebrated her success with Emilia Pérez, celebrated her as a trans role model, and then it all came crashing now. Journalist Sarah Hagi unearthed some old tweets of hers, and they were pretty nasty stuff. Translations revealed the tweets to be racist, ableist, and just plain unple…