Karla Sofía Gascón will be at the Oscars after all, with Netflix covering her expenses to attend the Dolby Theatre ceremony in Los Angeles on March 2nd, sources have confirmed to Deadline.
All Oscar nominees are afforded a ticket to the ceremony, so there was little reason to doubt that the Emilia Pérez star would show, to commemorate a historic nomination. The prospect had only been cast into some doubt when Gascón became embroiled in controversy in recent weeks, over resurfaced tweets from 2020 and 2021, which included offensive remarks about everything from Muslim to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.
With her Oscar nomination for her starring role in Jacques Audiard’s musical, Gascón became the first openly trans actor nominated for Best Actress. But in the wake of her social media scandal, backlash was swift, leading to Netflix scrubbing Gascón from her film’s promotional campaign
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