Emilia Pérez Director Drags Dipshit Bigot Karla Sofia Gascón: “I Just Don’t Understand Why She’s Continuing To Harm Us”
In fairness, this hack director is also a dipshit bigot for making the worst movie of 2024 (if not the decade) that’s racist towards Mexicans, but it’s still hilarious to see him dragging his own leading lady, otherwise known as the trans Mel Gibson of the Oscars, Karla Sofia Gascón. Excerpt of interview about train wreck Gascón with Jacques Audiard via Deadline:
DEADLINE: Yes, how Gascón’s old social media posts have become an overriding issue heading into this post-nomination period.
AUDIARD: Yes. Very unfortunately, it is taking up all the space, and that makes me very sad. It’s very hard for me to think back to the work I did with Karla Sofía. The trust we shared, the exceptional atmosphere that we had on the set that was indeed based on trust. And when you have that kind of relationship and suddenly you read something that that person has said, things that are absolutely hateful and worthy of being hated, of course that relationship is affected. It’s as if you fall into a hole. Because what Karla Sofía said is inexcusable.
DEADLINE: Have you spoken to her?
AUDIARD: I haven’t spoken to her, and I don’t want to. 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 [Saldaña] and Selena [Gomez]. I just don’t understand why she’s continuing to harm us.
DEADLINE: That sentiment seems to be missing in her fusillade of comments and interviews. Sometimes you just apologize and own that what you’ve said was wrongheaded. We haven’t really seen that.
AUDIARD: Absolutely not. She’s really playing the victim. She’s talking about herself as a victim, which is surprising. It’s as if she thought that words don’t hurt.
[Deadline]
Gascón isn’t attending any of the awards ceremonies or press events leading up to next month’s Oscars, and Netflix has completely scrubbed her name and image from their Emilia Pérez FYC ads. And it’s looking like she won’t attend the Oscars, despite making history as the first trans person nominated for Best Actress. It’ll be funny to see if anyone applauds when the presenter of the Best Actress category has to read her name while announcing the nominees.
