Train Wreck: Trans Star Of Loathed Yet Oscar-Nominated Netflix Bomb Emilia Pérez Is A Dipshit Bigot
The new Emilia Pérez scandal (read it here, via Variety) isn’t really surprising, but it’s still funny to see such a universally loathed yet inexplicably Oscar-nominated movie and its star being rightfully dragged through the mud. And it’s great to see the movie’s awful studio known for releasing one piece of complete crap after another, Netflix, being publicly humiliated for not vetting their lead actress. Trash begets trash.
Some of the headlines I’m seeing (like the one above) about Gascón’s tweets are misleading, labeling her racist hate speech as “old,” which might frame this as if they were racist opinions she had a long time ago. Uhh, no. She made dozens of hateful comments less than five years ago, in 2020, about George Floyd, Muslims, Asian people, and more. This was not 1990 or even 2010. Again, this was 2020. So-called “cancel culture” and scrutiny over people’s social media posts was happening every day in 2020, and she was a public figure using a public platform to voice her bigoted idiocy in plain view for everyone to see. She was an actress in Spain and just wasn’t as famous in 2020, and obviously wasn’t up for an Academy Award. Now, she’s perhaps the most hated and bigoted Oscar nominee since Mel Gibson.
Here’s just some of what she tweeted, via Variety:
Gascón, who is the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Academy Award, also weighed in on the Oscar ceremony from 2021, the first held following the COVID pandemic in which “Nomadland” won best picture.
“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. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
A tweet from August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, reads, “The Chinese vaccine, apart from the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, 2 plastic flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 telephone lines and one euro for your first controlled purchase.” Another tweet from February 2020 similarly takes aim at China, reading, “So many scientists in the world making bombs, so many scholars constructing objects for space, so many medicinal factories and there’s no one who can get in line with this Chinese shit. (shrug emoji) In the end, it was a tremendous show for a new variant of the flu, avian or coronavirus.”