Oscar nominee clarifies comments about fellow contender's team 'tearing her down’
Oscar nominee clarifies comments about fellow contender's team 'tearing her down’
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‘You don’t need to tear down someone’s work to highlight another,’ claimed the ‘Emilia Perez’ star. Karla Sofia Gascón, the star of Emilia Perez, has clarified her comments after accusing the social media team behind fellow Oscar contender I’m Still Here of undermining her.
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However, Gascón has since claimed that the social media team behind the Brazilian film are working with Torres to “tear me and Emilia Perez down”. In an interview with the Brazilian newspaper, Folha de S Paulo, Gascón said: “What I don’t like are social media teams - people who work with these people - trying to diminish our work, like me and my movie, because that doesn’t lead anywhere.
“You don’t need to tear down someone’s work to highlight another’s. I have never, at any point, said anything bad about Fernanda Torres or her movie. However, there are people working with Fernanda Torres tearing me and Emilia Perez down. That speaks more about their movie than mine.”.
“I am an enormous fan of Fernanda Torres and it has been wonderful getting to know her the past few months,” she added. “In my recent comments, I was referencing the toxicity and violent hate speech on social media that I sadly continue to experience. Fernanda has been a wonderful ally, and no one directly associated with her has been anything but supportive and hugely generous.”.
