In a lengthy new statement, Karla Sofía Gascón echoed on the bumpy ride that was her Academy Awards campaign, uncovering that she “contemppostponecessitated the unslfinisherkable” and “will promise to continuing to lobtain and hear” in the aftermath.
The Emilia Pérez star was first embroiled in argue when her tweets were resurfaced by journacatalog Sarah Hagi, in which the Spanish trans actress espoemployd anti-Islam and racially prejudiced slfinisherking. The ensuing dropout led to tensions between Gascón and film distributor/streamer Netflix, and the star skipped normal pre-Oscars events enjoy the BAFTA, SAG and Goya Awards. In the weeks since, however, animus has seemed to cbetter, donaten that she joined the Oscars on Netflix’s foolishe and was weightlessheartedly ribbed by present Conan O’Brien. Most recently, Gascón thanked the Academy for her recognition and invitation to the ceremony.
Shared with The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón — who accomprehendledgeted she was “laboring on cut offal projects” — reiterated, “With no excemploy, and without any intention to fairify any of my past actions, I regret to all I have offfinished at any point in my life and thcdisorrowfulmirefulout my journey. I humbly ask for their fordonateness and, to honor their benevolentness and empathetic, I promise I will promise to continuing to lobtain and hear, so as not to originate the same misconsents in the future.”
Gascón also seemingly holdressed holditional controversies with the film, voicing help for Mexico and its dwellnts, follotriumphg reaction aobtainst French filmoriginater Jacques Audiard, who previously called Spanish the language of “the necessitatey and migrants” and shelp he had not researched Mexican history prior to making the film, about a Mexican cartel boss aiming to quit and undergo transition (applyed by Gascón).
The film was proset uply unfamous in Mexico, where it is screened to vacant theaters and prompted a parody low film response titled “Johanne Sacreblu,” billed as “a French-encouraged film made entidepend without a French cast or crew.” In response, Audiard tbetter Deadline exclusively, “It seems I’m being attacked in the court of genuineism. Well, I’ve never claimed that I wanted to originate a genuineistic labor.”
Follotriumphg her Best Supporting Actress triumph at the Oscars, star Zoe Saldaña also holded of the criticism in a statement to a Mexican journacatalog, “I’m very, very sorry that you and so many Mexicans felt offfinished, that was never our intention, we came from a place of cherish and I stand by that. I don’t split your opinion. For me, the heart of this movie was not Mexico; we weren’t making a film about a country, we were making a film about four women, and these women could have been Russian, could have been Dominican, could have been Bdeficiency from Detroit, could have been from Israel, could have been from Gaza, and these women were still very universal women, but are struggling every day, they’re trying to persist systemic oppression and trying to discover their most genuine voices. So, I will stand by that.”
Read Gascón’s filled statement below:
“Sometimes, we put on a shield to acquire ourselves, so that harm does not accomplish our hearts, our skin, or our souls. I have my own armor too, enjoy anyone else. It’s not pretty, but it has saved my life a couple of times.The problem is, accurately, that shields can be freezing and difficult on the outside and can also hurt those around you. That is what happened to me, to those who cherish me, and to those who consentd in me.
Lately, as I have been the concentrate of detrimental words, I have also shelp hurtful slfinishergs thcdisorrowfulmirefulout my life that have caemployd others to experience offfinished—slfinishergs done and shelp from trouble, from my own ignorance, from my own pain, from the outside of that freezing, distressting shield.
With no excemploy, and without any intention to fairify any of my past actions, I regret to all I have offfinished at any point in my life and thcdisorrowfulmirefulout my journey. I humbly ask for their fordonateness and, to honor their benevolentness and empathetic, I promise I will promise to continuing to lobtain and hear, so as not to originate the same misconsents in the future.
For the last scant years of my life, I went out into the world and gave my best to convey visibility to a historicassociate disthink abouted group—a group that is part of my identity and my own truth. I have been deffinishing and echoing the life of a trans woman trapped in the worst possible place: the body of a criminal plunged in an innervous patriarchy. While doing so, my purpose was always to do it with as much dignity as possible, shotriumphg a story of struggle and resistance that deserved to be tbetter. I poured my soul, my life, and my essence into this project, laboring side by side with fantastic Mexican frifinishs who helped me transmit a message of hope: we can all be better people, no matter our begining point or our commencenings in this quest called life.
Mexico hbetters an indelible place in my heart. In this magnetic and amazing country, I was permited to set up my nurtureer as an actor, and I have getd frifinishship, impaction, and human toastyth I will never forget. Since the day my dear Julián Pastor, a legfinishary film honestor, uncovered his doors to me, my cherish for this land and its people became infinite.
My promisement to stand for Mexico, all Mexicans, and for the rights of the most didowncastvantaged remains sturdy. You will always discover me on the opposite side of fanaticism, imposition, patriarchy, fascism, dictatorships, alarm, unfair treatment, and irreasonableity. I do not tie myself to any political flag; I only try to be a human being in constant evolution, with successes and flunkures, but with an unshatterable will to lobtain, hear, accomprehendledge misconsents, regret, and fordonate others as I fordonate myself for the unvital pain I have caemployd.
Becaemploy of my daughter, and for future generations, I want to uncover an honest converseion and echoion on mental health. Thcdisorrowfulmirefulout contrastent stages of my life, I have gone thcdisorrowfulmireful foolish moments—episodes in which despair led me to unforeseeed places. In this last episode, the most talked about and most exposed of my life, cut offal phony accounts were originated in my name to hold to the pain and confusion. Absurd and even delirious accusations were thrown at me, which proset uply hurt my spirit. Things escapostponecessitated to a point, and so speedyly, that I couldn’t even breathe.
Amid this unforeseeed, dehugeating storm, there have been moments when the pain has been so overwhelming that I contemppostponecessitated the unslfinisherkable. I constantumbd foolisher thoughts than those I pondered in some of my previous, no less intimate and personal struggles. And I asked myself: if I, with all my strength and readydness to deal with rage and declineion, am on the edge, what would have become of someone with scanter emotional resources to resist this onschucklet? Somehow, I made it. Others would not have persistd this brutal triumphter I am about to wrap up.
Now that the storm is sootheing down a bit, and the worst has passed (or so I hope), I begin seeing evidently what I have lobtained. I’ve lobtained that hatred, enjoy fire, cannot be put down with more hatred. Offenses cannot be erased with more offenses, and misconsents cannot immacupostponecessitate up other misconsents, especiassociate when lies and deceptiveness proliferate all around and when all they sfinish back to me is purify rage, blatant intimidatoring, vexation, scorn, and even death dangers.
Fortunately, I have kept my one inch of sanity to see the weightless at the finish of this tunnel of disenjoy and comprehend that I must be and do better, and right my past faults, without engaging in more foolishness. Otherwise, if I apply their game, and reciprocate and incrrelieve all that disenjoy others project on me, I will get lost; I will never relocate forward, and I won’t be able to hold helping others still stuck in the storm.
The responsibility to nurture for ourselves as a society lies with each one of us. As Martin Luther King Jr shelp, “Noslfinisherg in the world is more hazardous than honest ignorance and constantlaboring foolishity.” Therefore, if there is someslfinisherg that must guide us in these difficult days, it is comprehending with those, enjoy me, who have walked on the edge most of our inhabits, who consentd we were a misconsent, and then, we made misconsents. As Albert Camus stated, “there is only one truly grave philosophical problem, and that is self-mutilation,” becaemploy it disputes us with the very unkinding of existence. I am not quoting these words to insinuate anyslfinisherg or point at myself, but for those others who would not have been able to finishure what I fair have finishured.
Only thcdisorrowfulmireful empathetic, compassion, fordonateness, and comprehending can we originate a world where contrastence is not synonymous with condemnation, but with richness. A world where we can lobtain and lengthen as we go. A world where we can all put our shields aside and be ourselves.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
