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Venice (Italy).- Karla Sofía Gascón stated this Saturday in Venice that everything that happened during the campaign for the Oscars of the film 'Emilia Pérez' was to remove her from the equation "because trans people cannot be an example for anyone's children".
"They made a whole show to remove a person they don't want," said the actress before receiving an award at the Venice Film Festival. "They had to get us out somehow because they only want us in the shadows," she affirmed.
Gascón made these statements to the media before receiving the Kineo Award for best international actress, a recognition for which she feels "very happy" months after the controversy sparked by her comments on social media.
After winning ex aequo alongside the rest of the actresses of 'Emilia Pérez', the Cannes 2024 acting award, the Madrid actress was positioned as one of the favorites to win the Oscar to which she had been nominated, but all opportunities vanished due to the publication of a series of old posts on her X account with racist and politically incorrect content.
Gascón asserted that this campaign makes him "angry" and argued that, although art should be involved in politics, politics should not enter the artistic sphere."A foreign, Spanish-language film, with a character who was a drug trafficker and who changes sex, starring a trans woman and a trans actress who could win an Oscar, nobody wanted it," she added.
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"Art has to condemn political acts and the barbarities that occur in the world. We have to be very involved in politics through art. But when politics gets into art, that's when we go wrong," he emphasized. And then he added: "There are many people who are determined to tell us what we can or cannot do (...) and which artists are valid, which are not, and what is valid and what is not. We are in great danger." But beyond the past controversy, Gascón wanted to express his satisfaction with the award they gave him today on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, in a hotel very close to the Palazzo del Cinema del Lido, where the official galas are held. "It's wonderful, the truth is I'm very happy, it's an incredible thing that they're giving me an award at the Venice Film Festival with all these people, an award that very important people have received and I'm very happy," he confessed. The protagonist of 'Emilia Pérez' (2024) has been recognized as the best international actress by the Kinéo Awards, organized since 2002 by the Italian association of the same name and presented during the Mostra, although completely collaterally.
