Karla Sofía Gascón won’t attend Goya Awards as Zoe Salda?a further distances herself from the toxic comments
Embattled Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón won’t attend this weekend’s Goya Awards in her native Spain to represent the film, Variety reported on Thursday.
Gascón, who was not flown to Los Angeles this week to participate in several key awards campaign events, is not nominated for the Goya Awards. However, it had been suggested that she would attend the ceremony amid the controversy surrounding her offensive social media posts and several botched attempts at apology.
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In addition to the news about the Goya Awards, it was also revealed that Dos Bigotes, a progressive book publisher in Spain, has “suspended the publication of a revised biographical novel of Gascón that first appeared in Mexico in 2018.”
Representatives for the publisher said that Dos Bigotes “has always been committed to equality, inclusion, and diversity … therefore, we must also be consistent with our way of thinking. … We do not share the statements Karla Sofia made… but we also have faith in something we told her: that the passage of time, vital learning, and experiences can make us better.”
It was only a week ago when Gascón’s bigoted social media posts resurfaced. However, the damage caused by her past commentary — which included offensive comments about Muslims, George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars — has put Emilia Pérez and Gascón’s fellow nominees on the defensive. On Wednesday, Best Supporting Actress contender Zoe Salda?a spoke out about the Gascón controversy and said she was “sad” about the situation.
“Time and time again, that’s the word because that is the sentiment that has been living in my chest since everything happened,” Salda?a told Variety. “I’m also disappointed. I can’t speak for other people’s actions. All I can attest to is my experience, and never in a million years did I ever believe that we would be here.”
Asked by Variety about Gascón’s suggestion that Salda?a and costar Selena Gomez had stood behind her “200 percent,” Salda?a did not confirm such support. “I do not support any negative rhetoric of racism and bigotry towards any group of people,” she said. “That is what I want to stand for.”
Salda?a’s comments came hours after Emilia Pérez filmmaker Jacques Audiard spoke out forcefully against Gascón. “I haven’t spoken to her, and I don’t want to,” Audiard said to Deadline. “She is in a self-destructive approach that I can’t interfere in, and I really don’t understand why she’s continuing. Why is she harming herself? Why? I don’t understand it, and what I don’t understand about this too is why she’s harming people who were very close to her. I’m thinking in this thing of how hurting others, of how she’s hurting the crew and all these people who worked so incredibly hard on this film. I’m thinking of myself, I’m thinking of Zoe [Salda?a] and Selena [Gomez]. I just don’t understand why she’s continuing to harm us. I’m not getting in touch with her because right now she needs space to reflect and take accountability for her actions.”
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