'Emilia Pérez' director Jacques Audiard revealed that he has not spoken to his film's title character Karla Sofía Gascón following her controversial tweets. Audiard told Deadline Hollywood in an interview that he has severed ties with the Oscar best actress nominee amid a growing controversy regarding offensive past social media tweets and commentary that Gascón posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).
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00:00Are you English?
00:03No, I'm not English. Why?
00:05no, because you
00:08You are pretty
00:09Amelia Perez director Jacques Odiard revealed that he has not spoken to his film star Carla Sofia Gascon following her controversial tweets
00:17Odiard told Deadline Hollywood in an interview that he has severed ties with the Oscar Best Actress nominee amid a growing controversy
00:24Regarding offensive past social media tweets and commentary that Gascon posted on X. Odiard insisted
00:31I haven't spoken to her and I don't want to adding
00:33I just don't understand why she's continuing to harm us
00:36Gascon's best actress Oscar prospects as well as the wider award season campaign for Amelia Perez appears in disarray this week
00:43However, the actress has continued to do the media rounds and has refused to take herself out of Oscar contention
00:49She is in a self-destructive approach that I can't interfere in and I really don't understand
00:53Why she's continuing. Why is she harming herself?
00:56Why I don't understand it and what I don't understand about this too is why she's harming people who were very close to her
01:02Odiard continued I'm thinking in this thing of how hurting others of how she's hurting the crew and all these people who work so
01:08Incredibly hard on this film. I'm thinking of myself
01:11I'm thinking of Zoe and Selena the controversy follows Gascon becoming the first openly
01:16Transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar in an acting category
01:20I'm not getting in touch with her because right now she needs space to reflect and take accountability for her actions
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