The Spanish actress, openly transgender, Karla Sofía Gascón, is appointed for the Oscar for the best actress for her role in “Emilia Pérez”.
Targeted by attacks on her transidentity, she denounces a “terrible hatred campaign”.
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She is the first transgender woman to be nominated for the Oscar for the best actress. Karla Sofía Gascón is appointed for her role in the UFO film by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez. The Spanish actress embodies a drug trafficker before and after her gender transition. Already rewarded with a female interpretation prize in Cannes, the Spanish actress has been since the TRANSPHOBE attack target. She denounces the hate campaign she is the subject of.
“A terrible hatred”
“I’m going to start crying, but it’s really ugly. It’s always the same thing, right?“Said Karla Sofía Gascón at a press conference in Uruguay, during the International Film Festival José Ignacio. The actress, in the midst of a promotional tour in Latin America, expressed her indignation in the face of the attacks directed against her and the ‘Film team.We face a terrible hatred just because we make a film, that we are different, even if I do not consider myself different from anyone, but equal to everyone, as different as everyone, Because there is no one of such“She explained.
In comments reported by AFP, the star ofEmilia Pérez revealed that his detractors went to his native village “To see if they remembered me“. She also denounced those who claim to know everything about her”Just to get to TV“.
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Who is Karla Sofía Gascón, the first transgender actress appointed to the Oscars for her role in “Emilia Pérez”?
A few days after these LGBT anti-right announcements, the film Emilia Pérez War 13 Oscar nominations, a record for a non -English -speaking film. In an interview with Hollywood ReporterKarla Sofía Gascón reacts to this news: “We have shown today that art is not compatible with hatred“. Without detour, she castigates a president of the United States “shamelessly“. And to prevent:”We go back. The new generations have not experienced what the old ones have passed, so they are intended to reproduce the same errors. Be careful when you give power to intolerance, because it puts an end to the little tolerance that we have“.
The Oscar ceremony will be held on March 3 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
