The Lead Actress From 'Emilia Perez' Is Now Under Fire For Old Posts About George Floyd, Muslims, COVID, And More
The posts, many of which were deleted on Thursday after they were resurfaced by journalist Sarah Hagi, were largely posted between 2020 and 2021. One example, dated Nov. 22, 2020: “I’m Sorry, Is it just my impression or is there more muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.”
Another post from Sept. 2, 2020, attached to photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant, including a woman in a burka, reads: “Islam is marvelous, without any machismo. Women are respected, and when they are so respected they are left with a little squared hole on their faces for their eyes to be visible and their mouths, but only if she behaves. Although they dress this way for their own enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY.”
In a post from Jan. 29, 2021, Gascón’s account says that “Islam fails to comply with international rights,” and that the religions “must be banned as long as it does not comply with DDHH” — using an abbreviation for human rights in Spanish law.
Along with her posts about Islam, Gascón posted a long thread about George Floyd just days after he was killed by a police officer, inspiring protests across the U.S. “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins,” she posted. “They’re all wrong.”
“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."
“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 reads, “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. (facepalm emoji) In the end, it was a tremendous show for a new variant of the flu, avian or coronavirus.”
ICYMI, she was also under fire for comparing the hate 'Emilia Perez' was getting to the lead up to the holocaust.
Now THIS is an interesting development. You know there is nothing the Academy would love more than to give out some performative oscars (as evident by this movie getting the second most Oscar nominations of all time despite mixed to bad reviews) but this throws a major wrench in Gascon's prospects. What is crazy about this saga to me is the simple lack of media training. Like I mention in my previous blog, Netflix allegedly bought this movie for $12 million and then spent several times that on it's award campaign. All that money burnt lining the pockets of voters but they didn't have a dime to spare on:
1. Teaching Gascon, their hopeful to win best actress at the academy fucking awards, on how to deal with the media, interviews, potential backlash to the project etc.
2. Purging her social media history.
It just makes no damn sense! On top of all those posts, she took a weird shot at another nominated movie, 'I'm Not Here' which some people thought might violate the Academy's rules, leading to her disqualification from the awards. However, that doesn't seem to be the case since her "shot" was at the movie and not directly at the nominee, Fernanda Torres.
And, on top of the holocaust stuff, old posts, and attacks on other nominated movies, the movie also apparently used AI voice cloning to enhance Gascon's voice, which is another extremely touchy subject this award season (It was also used to enhance Brody's Hungarian dialogue in 'The Brutalist).
P.S. Kind of ironic that the type of person who would blindly hate 'Emilia Perez' for the wrong reasons (wahhhh woke woke woke) instead of the right reasons (movie stinks), probably loves Gascon's based sentiments here.