Zoe Saldana Reacts To Emilia Perez Co-Star Karla Sofia Gascon’s Controversial Posts: “Don’t Have Any Tolerance…”

Actor Karla Sofia Gascon, identified for her position within the Oscar-nominated movie Emilia Perez, has deactivated her X account (previously Twitter) after her controversial posts from 2020 and 2021 resurfaced on social media, sparking backlash.

Reacting to this, her Emilia Perez co-star Zoe Saldana expressed her deep disappointment and disappointment over the current revelation of Karla’s previous bigoted tweets.

Throughout a Q&A session in London on Friday, she shared her response, describing the state of affairs as “actually unhappy.” When requested concerning the problem, she defined that she was nonetheless processing every little thing that had unfolded in current days. “I am nonetheless processing every little thing that has transpired within the final couple of days, and I am unhappy,” Zoe mentioned.

The occasion, the place the actress made her remarks, was initially set to characteristic Karla, who finally didn’t attend. 

Saldana continued, “It makes me actually unhappy as a result of I do not assist [it], and I haven’t got any tolerance for any unfavorable rhetoric in the direction of folks of any group.”

The actress additionally took a second to replicate on her private expertise engaged on the movie. “I can solely attest to the expertise that I had with each person that was an element, that may be a half, of this movie,” she defined. “My expertise and my interactions with them was about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural and gender fairness. And it simply saddens me,” she added.

Among the many tweets that resurfaced, Karla criticised the range of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. “Increasingly the #Oscars are wanting like a ceremony for impartial and protest movies. I did not know if I used to be watching an Afro-Korean pageant, a Black Lives Matter demonstration, or the 8M. Other than that, an unpleasant, ugly gala,” she wrote on X.

Moreover, she made derogatory remarks about George Floyd, calling him a “drug addict swindler” after his loss of life by the hands of a police officer in 2020, which sparked protests throughout america.