Karla Sofia Gascon is welcomed at Oscars 2025 with brutal roast from host Conan O'Brien: 'She tweeted what'

Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon is welcomed at Oscars 2025 with a brutal roast from host Conan O'Brien

Updated on: Mar 3, 2025, 06:26:28 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of Emilia Perez, arrived at the 2025 Oscars after a rather controversial awards season courtesy of her old tweets resurfacing. And promptly, she was welcomed to the awards with a brutal roast from host Conan O'Brien, with references to her publicist and the tweets themselves. (Also read: Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon set to attend Oscars despite controversy)

Karla Sofía Gascón in the audience during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Karla Sofia Gascon at the Oscars

Karla Sofia Gascon missed several award shows in the run up to the Oscars after her old controversial tweets resurfaced. It was only days before the Academy Awards that news emerged that Karla would attend the awards, where she is nominated for Best Actress.

Host Conan O'Brien wasted no time in getting to Karla and the controversy, when he mentioned, “Little fact for you, Anora uses the F word 479 times. That's three more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascon's publicist.” He then mimicked the actor's publicist talking on the phone and screamed, “She tweeted what?”

Addressing Sofia directly then, Conan said, “Sofia, if you want to tweet about the Oscars tonight, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”

The controversy

According to Deadline, sources close to Gascon confirmed two days ahead of the awards that Netflix will cover her expenses to attend the 97th Academy Awards. Her invitation to the Oscars had initially seemed uncertain due to recent controversies surrounding offensive social media posts from 2020 and 2021.

The tweets, which included insensitive remarks on various subjects such as Muslims, George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement, led to widespread backlash, and Netflix distancing her from the film and themselves.

Karla Sofia Gascon made history as the first transwoman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars earlier this year. She had earned praise for her performance in Emilia Perez, the musical from Jacques Audiard. The 97th Academy Awards are streaming live on JioHotstar in India.

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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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