“Emilia Pérez”: Oscar favorite for scandal tweets on the abyss

Within a very short time, the musical thriller “Emilia Pérez” has become bogus of this year’s Oscar award from the greatest favorite. Some of the very old tweets of the leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón, which a journalist in Canada now – only around four weeks before the award ceremony on March 2 in Los Angeles – were discovered and brought to daylight – and that before racism, Islam hostility and Even with malignant criticism of colleagues in the industry.

The contributions of the Spaniard, who was the first trans woman to be nominated for the Oscar as the best leading actress, triggered a wave of outrage and horror. The 52-year-old had complained only a few days before the affair on attacks, threats and insults on the net. In principle, Gascón did not contest the authenticity of most of them. She quickly closed her X account, apologized too. However, it can no longer prevent the total damage.

Industry leaves and experts agree: Gascón and her posts listed by journalist and podcaster Sarah Hagi not only have to write her personal hopes to write film history as a trans woman. She also seriously jeopardized the opportunities of French production, which is at the forefront of the 97th Oscar allocation with 13 nominations. Organizations such as the Council for Muslim public relations in Hollywood (MPAC) were shocked and demanded consequences.

Even in the Spanish homeland of how Hollywood star Penélope Cruz in Alcobendas born near Madrid, you go to court hard with Gascón. “Almost all of her chances and also that of the film,” she commented on the renowned newspaper “El País” on Sunday. “I am sure that the film goes out empty,” said the respected film expert Pau Brunet. In the meantime, the quotas of striping fell into the basement at the betting agencies.

This is not surprising: political correctness and sensitivity to minorities play a particularly important role in Hollywood. Open, clear criticism of well -known colleagues failed to materialize for the time being. However, the approximately 10,000 Academy members, who vote on the winners in the 23 divisions between 11 and 18 and 18, will surely have taken note of the latest incidents-and incorporate them into their election.

The drama “The Brutalist” and the musical “Wicked” (behind “Emilia Pérez” with ten nominations each) should primarily benefit from the fauxpas Gascóns. But also the Brazilian film “I’m Still here”, which, like “Emilia Pérez” both in the “Best Film” and “Best International Film” and “Best Actress” (Fernanda Torres), is now suddenly in the race significantly better chances.

No strip produced outside the USA had previously received as many Oscar nominations as “Emilia Pérez”. In it, Gascón plays a Mexican drug boss that makes his gender adapt to woman. The unconventional and daring film by directorary Jacques Audiard was named the best European film of the year in Lucerne and also won the Golden Globe in the “Comedy/Musical” division.

The affair now overshadows all these successes. Were the tweets from Gascón – which was briefly advanced to the much -celebrated symbolic figure in the fight against discrimination and equality – really that bad? Yes. Some of them were many years ago, but they came up with an all -round. Like an elephant in the porcelain shop, as a Spanish commentator said, the Spaniard attacked almost everything and everyone on the net.

According to reports of media such as “El País”, Gascón insulted, among others, Arabs and Catalans, Islam and the Catholic Church, celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Adele and even her “Emilia Pérez” code actress Selena Gómez. The woman did not stop at a death victim in the USA in the United States like George Floyd, which she described as “junkie”.

“I am a person who has also made mistakes, power and make, but I will learn from,” she said in one of her statements. However, their apology remained without the desired effect, including their justification that the tweets were ironic and partly torn from the context, has been half -hearted. In addition, she spoke of a “campaign of hate” that aims at her as a trans woman and to her work.

In her first interview after the outbreak of the scandal, she said to “Cnn en Espanol”: “The first thing I would like to do is to apologize to all the people who may have felt offended by my way of expression (. ..) I was accused of being racist, and I’m not. ” She uses “a lot of irony, sarcasm, sometimes exaggeration,” she also said to a trivialization by Adolf Hitler. Some tweets were also “invented” by “some media”. She did not want to do without her Oscar nomination, she emphasized.

In the meantime, not only Gascón was targeted, which, before her international breakthrough with “Emilia Pérez”, was more likely to be content with smaller roles in mostly less successful Spanish and Mexican films and TV productions and was by no means considered a star. The streaming service Netflix as a film main distributor and the United Talent Agency (Uta) as representative of the actress are also held accountable. “So much tolatability is amazing. The big question is: Why did nobody check the old tweets of the new world star?” Writes “El País”.