Selena Gomez is opening up in regards to the controversy surrounding her Emilia Pérez costar Karla Sofía Gascón.
Gomez was requested how she is dealing with the drama engulfing the hit Netflix musical throughout a Q&A on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sunday, February 9.
“Thanks. I’m actually good,” Gomez, 32, responded, per footage shared through X by The Hollywood Reporter. “A few of the magic has disappeared, however I select to proceed to be happy with what I’ve accomplished. I’m simply grateful and dwell with no regrets.”
Persevering with to indicate her assist for Emilia Pérez, which is nominated for 13 Oscars at this yr’s Academy Awards, Gomez added, “I’d do that film again and again if I may.”
Gascón, 52, has confronted backlash after controversial tweets shared by the actress resurfaced lately, overshadowing the film’s Oscar marketing campaign. The Spanish actress has been criticized for remarks made in regards to the Muslim group, the dying of George Floyd and even an apparent dig at Gomez.
Whereas the Greatest Actress Oscar nominee initially apologized for the posts in an announcement via Netflix, the movie’s distributor, she later claimed that a few of the remarks attributed to her have been taken out of context or fabricated.
Amid the scandal, Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard told Deadline last week that Gascón was taking a “self-destructive strategy” and questioned, “Why is she harming herself?”
“Why? I don’t perceive it, and what I don’t perceive about this too is why she’s harming individuals who have been very near her,” he added, referring to Gascón’s costars Zoe Saldaña, who can also be nominated for an Oscar, and Gomez. “I’m pondering on this factor of how hurting others, of how she’s hurting the crew and all these individuals who labored so extremely arduous on this movie. I’m pondering of myself, I’m pondering of Zoe and Selena. I simply don’t perceive why she’s persevering with to hurt us.”
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On Thursday, February 6, Gascón shared a fresh apology through Instagram.
“Following Jacques’ interview that I perceive, I made a decision, for the movie, for Jacques, for the solid, for the unbelievable crew who deserves it, for the gorgeous journey all of us had collectively, to let the work speak for itself, hoping my silence will enable the movie to be appreciated for what it’s, an attractive ode to like and distinction,” she shared.
“I sincerely apologize to everybody who has been harm alongside the way in which,” she added alongside a photograph of the Emilia Pérez solid and crew on the movie’s Cannes premiere final yr.
For her half, Saldaña, who’s up for Greatest Supporting Actress on the Oscars, told Variety last week that the controversy made her really feel “unhappy.”
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“Time and time once more, that’s the phrase as a result of that’s the sentiment that has been residing in my chest since every thing occurred,” the Oscar nominee stated.
“I’m additionally disillusioned. I can’t converse for different individuals’s actions. All I can attest to is my expertise, and by no means in one million years did I ever imagine that we’d be right here,” she added.
