Selena Gomez has spoken out following the current scandal surrounding tweets by her Emilia Perez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón.
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Final month, posts on X (previously Twitter) from Gascón’s account had surfaced – these tweets had expressed hateful views relating to Muslims, the 2020 homicide of George Floyd and the Oscars. She has since apologised for the feedback, denying she is a racist, and has deleted her account on the social media website.
Fellow Emilia Perez co-star Zoe Saldaña first broke her silence final week (February 6), expressing in a podcast that she was “unhappy” and “disenchanted” however she couldn’t “converse for different individuals’s actions”.
Now, Gomez spoke concerning the scenario on the Santa Barbara Movie Pageant on Sunday (February 9), the place she obtained the Virtuosos Award.
“A number of the magic has disappeared,” she revealed, per Selection. Gomez echoed Saldaña’s earlier feedback about being “pleased with” the work she did on Emilia Perez.
“However I select to proceed to be pleased with what I’ve carried out and I’m simply grateful,” Gomez continued. “I reside with no regrets, and I’d do that film again and again if I might.”
The headlines have thrown into query the movie’s probabilities at Oscar glory. Emilia Pérez has achieved a file 13 nominations for this 12 months’s ceremony, together with Finest Movie, Finest Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Finest Actress for Gascón – the primary overtly Transgender particular person to be nominated for the class.
On February 2, Gascón appeared on a TV interview emotionally defending herself, revealing she had obtained loss of life threats and abuse following the controversy.
In defence of her posts, Gascón mentioned that she depends on “irony, sarcasm and at instances exaggeration and naturally I exploit a useful resource to speak in third particular person, if what I wrote was written by somebody who thinks in a detrimental method,” and that she is “clearly” a supporter of the Black Lives Matter motion.
Whether or not Gascón or Emilia Pérez go on to win any Academy Awards will likely be revealed through the ceremony on March 2.
