Zoe Saldaña broke her silence after racist, homophobic, and anti-Islam tweets by her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week. 'I'm still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I'm sad,' Saldaña, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez, shared during a Q&A for the film in London on Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Avatar star, who didn't mention Gascón or the controversial posts, sat next to Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard, while Gascón, originally scheduled to attend, was absent, the outlet reported. Saldaña continued, 'It makes me really sad because I don't support and I don't have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group.'. 'I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that was a part of this film, and my experience and my interactions with them were about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and gender equity. And it just saddens me.'.

She also expressed her disappointment over the film facing this 'setback' but thanked fans for continuing to 'show up' for the project. Zoe Saldaña broke her silence after racist, homophobic, and anti-Islam tweets by her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week. 'I'm still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I'm sad,' Saldaña, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez, shared during a Q&A for the film in London on Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter; (Selena Gomez, Zoe, and Karla Sofía Gascón in November).

'Because the message that this film has is so powerful and the change that it can bring forward to communities that are marginalized day in and day out is important. 'And all that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. 'That's all we can say right now. Thank you.'. Saldaña's remarks come after Gascón addressed her decision to delete her X account following an apology over the resurfaced tweets.

In the tweets, Gascón criticized the diversity of the 2021 Oscars, called George Floyd a 'drug addict swindler' after his killing by a police officer in 2020, which sparked nationwide protests, and made disparaging comments about Islam, claiming the faith 'fails to comply with international rights.'. In additional tweets seen by Deadline before she deactivated her account, Gascón used derogatory language, calling gay people 'f******' and criticizing the rhetoric within parts of the LGBTQ+ movement.

On Friday, Gascón explained she deleted her X account after receiving death threats and harassment. 'I'm sorry, but I can no longer allow this campaign of hate and misinformation to affect me and my family, so at their request I am closing my account on X,' Gascón, 52, wrote in her statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. 'I have been threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the point of exhaustion. I have a wonderful daughter to protect, whom I love madly and who supports me in everything.'.

Saldaña continued, 'It makes me really sad because I don't support and I don't have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group'; (seen in January). 'And all that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. 'That's all we can say right now. Thank you'; (seen in January).

She added, 'I have defended each and every one of the minorities in this world and supported any event against racism, freedom of religion or homophobia, in the same way that I have criticized the hypocrisy that underlies them, because the first thing I am self-critical of is myself.'. 'Perhaps my words are not correct, many times due to ignorance or pure mistake. I apologize again if anyone has ever felt offended or in the future. I am a human being who also made, makes and will make mistakes from which I will learn. I am not perfect.'.

'I am only responsible for what I say, not for what others say I say or what others interpret from what I say. 'I hope to have the opportunity to give a more extensive explanation at some point. 'Forgive me because I keep going from one side to the other and I cannot be responding to every single thing you bring up to try to sink me. 'But if you want, you can continue attacking me as if I were responsible for hunger and wars in the world. I apologize again if I have ever offended anyone with my words in my life.

She added:  I am only Karla Sofía Gascón, an actress who has reached where very few have thanks to her effort and work, without stealing or harming anyone in this world, just trying to get them to let me live in peace, love and respect, something that seems to bother a lot of people in this world. 'It is clear that there is something very dark behind it.'. Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is facing more backlash as a fresh wave of controversial tweets resurfaces, this time featuring hurtful comments about her Emilia Pérez costar Selena Gomez; Gomez is seen in January.