- Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón won’t attend The Critic Choice Awards
- This comes after tweets of hers went viral last week
- Gascón is the first openly transgender actress nominated for an Oscar
Emilia Pérez is going to be one Best Actress Oscar nominee down at the Critics Choice Awards.
The film is continuing to be on everybody’s lips for all the wrong reasons. After facing backlash for its depiction of LGBT+ issues and Mexico, the Jacques Audiard-helmed movie is getting deeper into a new scandal as last week, tweets from its titular star, Karla Sofía Gascón, went viral posted between 2016 and 2021.
Read more: The Karla Sofia Gascón controversy explained
Now, the fallout continues as Gascón is no longer expected to leave Spain to attend industry events with her co-stars Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
What events is Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez?
To mark Emilia Pérez being given 13 nods, she was expected to join her director and co-star at the AFI Awards luncheon on 6 February.
Most notably, Gascón was supposed to be in the audience at The Critics Choice Awards on Friday, 7 February.
The following day, she was due at the Producers Guild Awards, which is held at the same time as the Director Guild Awards.
What did Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón post?
Gascón posted an array of things on social media for several years. Her targets between 2016 and 2021 were vast and varied and included George Floyd, Muslims and the Academy Awards themselves.
“Sorry, is it just me or are there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English, we’ll have to teach Arabic,” she wrote in one tweet on her now-deleted account.
anyway …. pic.twitter.com/X0n474U3fH
— sarah hagi (@KindaHagi) February 1, 2025
Another touched upon the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement that said, “Honestly, I 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 … without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.”
When Nomadland won in 2021, Gascón posted, “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. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
What has Karla Sofía Gascón said since?
After journalist Sarah Hagi highlighted the tweets, Gascón first apologised on Instagram.
However, now, after booking herself on the Spanish language edition of CNN, she has since doubled down. Despite outcries, the actress is refusing to step back from the nomination.
“I cannot step down from an Oscar nomination because I have not committed any crime, nor have I harmed anyone,” Gascón said.
