When pressed if that meant Netflix is doing so, she replied “yes” and added: “I think you also have to think about too, are we going to actually look at the personal social media of the tens of thousand of people, every single day around the world, and the amount of original film and TV that we make and licensing and co-prods (productions).”.
Asked what she wants to say to Gascon, Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria told podcast The Town With Matthew Belloni: “What I think is really a bummer for 100 very incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie.
Asked if Netflix would check social media posts of stars, Ms Bajaria said it is “not really common practice for people to vet social tweets that way”.
Its main star, Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascon, has stepped back from promoting the film after previous social media posts she made about Islam, the death of George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars resurfaced following the musical’s release.
Ms Bajaria said that “the hardest thing, it does detract from the movie that is so special”, and added that Netflix “would still buy the movie today”.
