Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is just not anticipated among the many attendees for the BAFTA Movie Awards after her racially insensitive X/Twitter posts have been uncovered.
Gascón is nominated for Main Actress on the BAFTAs however is just not on a visitor record for the night time, suggesting that the transgender Spanish performer will skip Sunday’s ceremony. She was the first overtly trans actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Movie Award.
Gascón has already missed the Critics Alternative Awards, PGA Awards, and the Goya Awards, however the BAFTAs is arguably the highest-profile occasion she is not going to attend. Netflix and her reps didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Different Emilia Pérez nominees, together with Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez (each competing for Supporting Actress), are anticipated to be in London for the Royal Pageant Corridor occasion. Saldaña and Gomez may even current a prize.
In a press release final week, Gascón successfully withdrew from the awards path, saying that she needed to let the work do the speaking. Gascón mentioned she hopes “my silence will permit the movie to be appreciated for what it’s,” including: “I sincerely apologize to everybody who has been damage alongside the best way.”
It follows Gascón’s controversial social media posts being unearthed by journalist Sarah Hagi final month, exploding a marketing campaign through which the actress was anticipated to make historical past as a transgender award-winner for her function as a transitioning drug lord in Emilia Pérez.
Gascón wrote that Islam was a “hotbed of an infection for humanity,” described George Floyd as a “drug addict swindler” and mentioned that the 2021 Oscars have been an “ugly” “Afro-Korean pageant” after triumphs for Minari and Judas and the Black Messiah.
Elsewhere, Gascón contemplated that she doesn’t “perceive a lot in regards to the world battle in opposition to Hitler, he merely had his opinion about Jews,” and frequently used a Spanish phrase that interprets as “faggot” in English.
BAFTA Movie Awards Visitor Listing
Different nominees anticipated to attend the BAFTA Movie Awards embrace Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo for Depraved, Timothée Chalamet for A Full Unknown, and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing.
Visitor presenters will embrace Mark Hamill, who might play a job in giving Star Wars co-star Warwick Davis his BAFTA Fellowship. Pamela Anderson and Lupita Nyong’o may even hand out prizes. Performers on the night time will embrace Take That and Jeff Goldblum, who will play piano for the In Memoriam part.
Right here’s the total record of visitor presenters: Adam Pearson, Adam Scott, Anna Kendrick, Camila Cabello, Celia Imrie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colman Domingo, Gwendoline Christie, Hannah John-Kamen, Isabella Rossellini, James McAvoy, James Norton, Jessie Eisenberg, Joe Alwyn, Letitia Wright, Leo Woodall, Lupita Nyong’o, Marisa Abela, Marisa Tomei, Mark Hamill, Michelle Monaghan, Naomi Ackie, Orlando Bloom, Pamela Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Simon Pegg, Shazad Latif, Stephen Service provider, Thomasin McKenzie, Vanessa Kirby, Vanessa Williams, Will Poulter, Will Sharpe, Tom Felton, Wunmi Mosaku.
David Tennant is internet hosting the BAFTA Movie Awards for the second consecutive yr. The ceremony will likely be broadcast on Sunday, February 16, at 7pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
