Jacques Audiard, Karla Sofía Gascón.
Getty Images (2)Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard It is not impressed with the liquid drama surrounding one of the film stars.
As Karla Sofía Gascón He continues to give titles for a series of controversial X posts recently re -published on the network, Audiard, 72, said the drama influenced the interview with their film nominated for an Oscar.
“Unfortunately, it takes up all the space, and that is very sad,” Audiard said Deadline In an interview published on Wednesday, February 5th. “It is very difficult for me to think about the job I did with Karl Sofía. The confidence we shared, the exceptional atmosphere we had on the set that was really based on trust. And when you have such a relationship and suddenly read something that the person said, Things that are absolutely hateful to hate you, of course it is affected by this relationship.
Gascón, 52, raised his eyebrows in January 2025. When the posts on social networks appeared online, ranging from 2016 to 2020 and later.
Dave Benett/Getty Images for Netflix Zoe Saldaña responded to a recent controversy around her star Emilia Pérez Karl Sofía Gascón. Gascón, 52, began to receive a wide reaction after past posts on social media – some of which dated 2016 – they re -appeared online. In some posts Gascón targets various religious groups, including (…)
In some of the posts, the actress gave derogatory comments directed to the Muslim population in her birthplace of Spain. Gave negative comments about George Floydwhom the policeman killed in 2020.
She also allegedly made Dig with her Emilia Pérez Kostar Selena Gomezcalling her “rich rats.”
Audiard revealed that he had not talked to Gascón of controversy, because “she should currently think and take responsibility for her actions.”
“She really plays the victim,” he said. “He speaks of herself as a victim, which is surprising. It was as if she thought the words didn’t hurt.”
In the post on social networks, Gascon addressed the current return reaction Apologizing “to all those who felt bad about the way I expressed myself at any stage of my life.”
“I can’t fix my past actions, I can only say that today I am not the same person as 10 or 20 years ago, that although I have not committed any crime, I have not been perfect either, I am not even now” Her post continued. “I’m just trying to learn every day and be a better person.”
Instead of thinking about Gascón, Audiard said he was more focused on other film stars including Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.
“What I do not understand about it is why she harms the people who were very close to her,” he told Deadline. “She hurt the crew and all those people who worked so hard on this movie. I mean myself, I mean Zoe (Saldaña) and Selena (Gomez). I just don’t understand why we are still damaging to us.”
The discovered effect of Karl Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez is a history. Gascón plays a Mexican cartel hiring a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to fake their death to undergo surgery that confirms the gender in the musical 2024, quickly earning Gascón’s acting nominations on several awards. And for Golden Globes and Academy 2025 (…)
With less than a month before 2025 OscarAudiard wants to simply celebrate Emilia Pérezwith 13 nominationsincluding the best picture and best actress in Saldaña’s side role.
For now, Audiard said “something sad” in a series of events.
“I thought I was going back here full of enthusiasm and now there is a sadness we have to go through, if things are not clear, then we have to illuminate them and we will have to spend time on the continuation to really defend this movie,” he said. “I’m not alone in this business. There is Zoe. I want and I will defend her primarily. I would never let her go. There is my extraordinary crew that worked on this movie, with faith and enthusiasm. No way to let go of these people. “