Karla Sofía Gascón‘s X/Twitter account went dark on Friday morning after the star of Emilia Pérez apologized for offensive posts.
The transgender actress said she was “deeply sorry” for old posts in which she voiced insensitive views on Muslims, diversity at the Oscars, the LGBTQ+ movement, and the death of George Floyd.
Gascón’s account was still live as recently as a couple of hours ago, but appears to have been deactivated as she scrambles to shore up her Oscar campaign.
Gascón has a shot at making history by becoming the first openly transgender woman to win the Best Actress Academy Award.
In a statement through Netflix, she said: “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt.
“As 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.”
In 2021, she wrote: “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
In a post about George Floyd, she said: “I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.”
In other tweets reviewed by Deadline before deactivating her account, Gascón referred to gay people as “faggots” and lamented the rhetoric of some in the LGBTQ+ movement.
Per a Google translation of Spanish, she wrote: “What a disservice all these trans and LGB clowns do… by following the discourse of the extreme right, the ones with no one and all kinds of reactionaries.
They remind me of black people with whips making their brothers pick cotton. Sons of a bitch.”
