Netflix separates Karla Sofía Gascón from the ‘Emilia Pérez’ campaign for the Oscar

The film Emilia Pérez, who was outlined as the great favorite of the Oscar awards with 13 nominations, is wrapped in controversy because of its protagonist actress, the Spanish Karla Sofía Gascón, who is receiving a barrage of criticism after Light of former offensive and racist publications in his X/Twitter account, now disabled.

Following this and according to the latest information, it seems that lA actress will not be present in the promotion events of the tape and campaign for the Hollywood Academy Awards that will be held in Los Angeles next days.

As reports The Hollywood Reporterthis Thursday, February 6, Gascón had to attend the AFI Awards lunch, which commemorate the best of the cinema and television of the year, along with the director of Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard and their companions of cast, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gómez. In addition, on Friday the actress was expected to go to the Critics Choice Awards, whose delivery gala will take place in Santa Monica, California.

On the other hand, on Saturday the Guild Awards and the Guild Awards, Emilia Pérez has received nominations in both and Gascón would have a presenter in the latter. Finally, this Sunday, February 9, the interpreter was going to make an appearance at Santa Barbara Film Festival as one of the nine awarded to the Virtuoso Awards with Gomez and one of the Oscar nominated for the best best actress Fernanda Torres (I’m still here) with which it has also been wrapped in controversy.

In any case, it seems that Gascón will not fly to Los Angeles to attend any of the aforementioned events. According to the American media, this could be due not only to the controversy over its old publications but also to some tension between the actress and Netflix, the distributor of Emilia Pérez in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, since in recent days, Gascón He has been writing regularly on social networks and offering interviews without consulting or coordination with Netflix.

It should be remembered that this weekend the interpreter granted an interview with CNN in Spanish without the previous knowledge or consent of the streaming service. In her statements, the actress said she had not “committed any crime”, apologized to all the people who could have felt offended by their way of expressing themselves and denied the veracity of some of the texts come to light, as one in which supposedly criticized Gomez.

Eliminated from promotional material

The actress has already been eliminated from emails of promotional nature and ads, posters, advertising fences and other materials that promote la film for the awards. It is expected that the campaign in the race for the Oscar of Emilia Pérez will now begin to focus on other members of the cast and not so much on it, as it was happening.

The Hollywood Reporter information also points out that Netflix and the actress communicate only through the Gascón agentJeremy Barber de UTA, and that today the streaming service does not have much interest in providing the usual courtesies that a study of an Oscar candidate usually offers, such as transport and accommodation in Los Angeles, to facilitate their assistance to the remaining meetings of the awards season.

Netflix is ​​not the only part interested in distancing itself from Gascón. THR He also points out that according to their sources other people who were going to attend some of the events mentioned together with the actress, such as the Santa Barbara Film Festival, had indicated that they could have to cancel their participation if she did not cancel her own, for fear that things could get very uncomfortable with her there.