Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard has thanked his lead actor, Karla Sofía Gascón, during an acceptance speech at the Baftas – following weeks of controversy surrounding her bigoted social media posts.
The social media behaviour of Gascón, who had shown bigoted views towards people of colour, Muslims and increased diversity at the Oscars, plummeted Emilia Pérez into controversy in the last few weeks – and led to Netflix removing her image from their film posters.
Emilia Pérez was nominated for 11 Baftas, including best director, best film, and film not in the English language.
Emilia Pérez beat out four other films in the best film not in the English language category: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap, and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Jacques Audiard thanks lead actor Gascón during Bafta acceptance speech after weeks of controversy over her social media posts.
