When Karla Sofía Gascón of Emilia Pérez became the first trans woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, the internet celebrated. But those celebrations were cut short in the last days of January when the media uncovered racist, Islamophobic, and ableist old Tweets sent by Gascón.
Variety translated the tweets originally recovered by journalist Sarah Hagi, and they’re truly shocking. In one, Gascón complains about Muslims in Spain, her home country, and says, “Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.” In another, she speaks about George Floyd, the man whose murder by American police sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, and calls him “a drug addict swindler.”
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