Zoe Saldana Is “the treatment” of the controversy that has been involved in her Oscar -nominated movie Emilia Perez.
Costar Saldaña Carla Sofia Jaskoun She was recently criticized for re -appearing, offensive tweets with anti -Muslims, combating diversity and racist language. Before discovering the posts, the movie He won four Golden Globe – Including one for Salsania – and it appears to be a repetition of success at the Oscars in March.
In an interview with diversePodcast, “Awards”, which fell on Thursday, Saldana expressed its grief that the controversy overwhelms the historical achievements of the film.
“I am sad.” This is the word because these are the feelings that have been living in my chest since everything happened. “I am very disappointed. I can’t talk about the behavior of others. All I can witness is my experience, and I never thought in a million years that we would be here. “
Saldaña said that she is trying to achieve a complex balance between recognizing bad behavior, as well as a movie and performance that made it proud.
She said: “I allow myself to try this joy because we met as a team.” “But we are also individuals responsible for everything we say and everything we do.”
“I can still stand next to a group of work that I can be proud of,” I later repeated, adding that “you will always be an optimistic person.”
Saldana, who spoke frequently against racism and gender equality and stereotypes Representing the Latin peopleShe also made it clear that she condemns Gascón’s language and ideas.
She said: “I do not support any negative speech of racism and intolerance towards any group of people.” “This is what I want to stand for.”
Saldana said she will use this experience as an opportunity to grow.
“You may think it is just a statement I reached next to my team, but at the end of the day, when I cannot speak on behalf of anyone else, I can only speak on myself on myself and what I saw, she said.” This should be enough at the present time. I am still treating. Certainly I think this is an educational experience. Everything in life is an educational experience for all of us. The point of uncomfortable events is for development. So I hope to continue to move in the right direction. “
Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karl Sofía Gascón Star in the “Emilia Pérez” music.
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He follows the French music produced by the Spanish language directed by Jack Audiad, the character of Gascon, a Mexican Cartel coach who is secretly undergoing surgery to influence the gender with the help of a lawyer, played by Saldana. It was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, where he won the jury award and the Best Actress Award for her female band, which includes Selena Gomez.
Before the Gascón leaflets became the center of discussion about the movie, the audience was already Criticism Against the film’s photos of Mexico and the identity of transgender people.
After the outbreak of a tweet, Gascón Unput its X accountBut it was not silent.
in An interview that Netflix was not authorizedGascón appeared on Cnn en español He said: “I was convicted, sacrificed, crucified and stoned without trial and without an option to defend myself.”
Gascón cnn also told that Saldaña supported it. Saldana addressed this claim in a variety of “long flashing” and not confirming. Instead, she repeated that she did not support Gascón.
The signs later stopped the GASCón Awards campaign. According to Hollywood ReporterGASCón will no longer attend AFI Awards, Critics Choice Awards, Producers’ Awards (where they were to be presented) or the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It has already been removed from some Netflix Digital Awards.
Dos Bigots books also Declare On Thursday, it will suspend its plans to re -publish a revised version of Gascón’s novel for the year 2018. publishing house Specialized in raising the level of authors and various books with LGBTQ+ and women’s topics. The organization said in its statement, while its leaders do not want to “feed the controversy”, they felt that the values of Gascón and the ideals do not agree with them.
Emilia Perez was nominated for 11 pioneering Oscar Awards and Gascón is Firstly outside Transgender representative To be nominated in the acting category.
