Emilia Perez actor Karla Sofia Gascon deletes X account after backlash to racist, Islamophobic tweets

Actor Karla Sofia Gascon, best known for her role in Oscar-nominated film Emilia Perez, has deactivated her X account (formerly Twitter).

Updated on: Feb 1, 2025, 10:03:59 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Actor Karla Sofia Gascon, best known for bagging an Oscar nomination for her performance in the film Emilia Perez, has deactivated her X account (formerly Twitter). This comes days after she apologised for offensive posts that resurfaced Thursday. Gascon's X account @karsiagascon was deactivated as of Friday morning, as per Variety. (Also read: Internet wants Karla Sofia Gascon 'disqualified' from Oscars after her racist tweets on Muslims, Covid, BTS resurface)

This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón, left, and Adriana Paz in a scene from Emilia Pérez. (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP) (AP)

The controversy around Karla Sofia Gascon's tweets

Gascon recently faced backlash after X users discovered tweets from 2020 and 2021 that had controversial views on Muslims, George Floyd, BTS, Adele, and diversity at the Oscars, among other things.

Later, in a statement to Variety, she apologised, saying, “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt. As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”

Among her several resurfaced tweets, Gascon critiqued the diversity of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. "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," she wrote on X.

She also called George Floyd a "drug addict swindler" after he was killed by a police officer in 2020 and inspired protests around the U.S. She also made disparaging remarks about singer Adele's weight loss, and the physical appearances of the members of K-pop band BTS.

Who is Karla Sofia Gascon?

Gascon made history as the first transgender performer to be nominated for the Oscar for best actress, helping make Emilia Perez the most nominated film going into next month's show. Gascon was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning in 2018. In Emilia Perez, she plays both a menacing cartel kingpin and the woman who emerges after the kingpin fakes his own death, Emilia Perez.

(With agencies inputs)

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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