Netflix has been quiet since the social media past of its Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón surfaced in late January, forcing changes to and awkward conversations for her castmates on the awards campaign trail for Jacques Audiard’s ambitious Spanish-language drug cartel musical.
But on Thursday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria was asked what she thought of the controversy on an episode of the podcast The Town.
“You know what I think is really a bummer [is] for 100 very incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie,” she said. “If you look at the nominations and all of the awards love it’s received, I think it’s such a bummer that it’s distracted from that.”
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Bajaria praised the awards campaign for the pic, which began way back in May after it hit the Cannes Film
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