Karla Sofía Gascón Says She’s ‘Deeply Sorry’ For Offensive Tweets

Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón addresses her offensive tweets that resurfaced this week and apologizes for the “pain” she’s caused. In a statement shared with Vulture, Gascón writes: “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.” Several Islamaphobic posts by the Oscar nominee were reshared online today. In one post from 2020, written originally in Spanish, she sarcastically called Islam a “marvelous” religion without sexism alongside a photo of a family where a woman was wearing a burka. She continued, “When they respect women a lot, they leave a little square on their faces to see their eyes and mouth, but only if she behaves well.”

It seemed like there was no controversial topic that Gascón shied away from posting about between 2020 and 2021. Other tweets from Gascón include her criticism of the 2021 Oscars and George Floyd protests. “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M,” Gascón wrote in one tweet, as noted by Variety. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.” On George Floyd, Gascón wrote in a thread: “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.”