Three months after being dismissed from the Oscar raceEmilia Pérez Due to former racist and Islamophobic tweets, Karla Sofia Gascon signs her return to cinema in the thriller The Life Lift.
Almost three months after being at the heart ofa lively controversy who had destroyed the chances of the film Emilia Pérez At the 2025 Oscars, actress Karla Sofia Gascon tries to turn the page and return to the cinema.
As the American media Variety reports, the Trans actress who had been pinned a few weeks away from the Oscars after the discovery of former offensive and racist tweets, announced that she would be playing in the film The Life Lifta psychological thriller with Vincent Gallo, directed by Stefania Rossella Grassi.
According to the synopsis relayed by Variety, this feature film will follow Gabriel (Vincent Gallo), a New Yorker who will become the target of post-it left in the elevator of his building, ordering him to commit murders on three other tenants.
Karla Sofia Gascon will embody a psychiatrist who “represents both God and the devil”. For the time being, The Life Lift does not yet have a release date. Its shooting must begin “between the end of 2025 and February 2026”, as Stefania Rossella Grassi said in Variety.
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The Life Lift is the first project of Karla Sofia Gascon since the controversy around the film Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard. At the beginning of the year, the actress had been dismissed by Netflix of the Oscar feature film campaign after the exhumation of racist and Islamophobic messages written by the latter on social networks.
In one of the messages published, Karla Sofia Gascon called George Floyd, an African-American killed by the police in 2020, “drug addict” and “crook”. In another, she believed that Islam was “becoming an infection home for humanity that it is urgent to treat”.
Remarks that had greatly reduced the chances of success ofEmilia Pérez at the Oscars. However, a big favorite of the 2025 edition with 13 nominations, this musical on the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker ultimately won only two statuettes.
Since then, Karla Sofia Gascon has spoke publicly several times to apologize for her tweets. “As a member of a marginalized community, I only know this suffering too well and I am deeply sorry for those to whom I caused pain,” she wrote in A press release sent to AFP.
The actress also said that she received death threats after her racist tweets and “considered the unthinkable” at the height of this controversy: “There were times when the pain was so overwhelming that I considered the unthinkable,” she revealed last March.
