{"id":42438,"date":"2025-01-31T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/karla-sofia-gascon-emilia-perez-star-apologizes-for-posts-on-muslims-george-floyd-and-china\/31\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:21:16","slug":"karla-sofia-gascon-emilia-perez-star-apologizes-for-posts-on-muslims-george-floyd-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/karla-sofia-gascon-emilia-perez-star-apologizes-for-posts-on-muslims-george-floyd-and-china\/31\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n, \u2018Emilia P\u00e9rez\u2019 Star, Apologizes for Posts on Muslims, George Floyd and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n, the star of the movie musical \u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez\u201d and the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/movies\/karla-sofia-gascon-oscar-history-trans-actress.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award<\/a>, apologized on Thursday after social media posts she wrote denigrating Muslims, George Floyd and China were resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,\u201d Gasc\u00f3n, 52, said in a statement provided by Netflix, the distributor of \u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez.\u201d \u201cAs someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one of the posts on X, which were published in Spanish and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KindaHagi\/status\/1884980574865232056\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared in screenshots by the journalist Sarah Hagi<\/a>, Gasc\u00f3n wrote that Islam was \u201cbecoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.\u201d In another, she wrote that \u201cthe religion is INCOMPATIBLE with Western values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/karla-sofia-gascon-tweets-muslims-george-floyd-backlash-emilia-perez-1236291448\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gasc\u00f3n also described Floyd<\/a> as a \u201cdrug-addicted con artist\u201d in a 2020 post criticizing people who were protesting his deadly arrest by police officers. Later that year, during the coronavirus pandemic, she wrote that \u201cthe Chinese vaccine, in addition to the mandatory chip, comes with two spring rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/31\/movies\/karla-sofia-gascon-apology-netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karla Sof&iacute;a Gasc&oacute;n, the star of the movie musical &ldquo;Emilia P&eacute;rez&rdquo; and the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/karla-sofia-gascon-emilia-perez-star-apologizes-for-posts-on-muslims-george-floyd-and-china\/31\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}