“I would be happier if Trump wasn't there, but I'm glad that it coincided because it's going to be a shock”
Karla Sofía Gascón made history this week by becoming the first trans actress to achieve an Oscar nomination for Emilia Perez. “It had been nominated in all the most important festivals and awards in the world, from the BAFTAs to the Golden Globes. I also don't think it was much of a mystery that it ended up being on the Oscar lists,” she admitted to the press this Friday from Uruguay, where this week he will present the film by Jacques Audiard. “This is the culmination of everything,” he celebrated.
The announcement of his candidacy coincided with the same week in which Donald Trump returned to the White House after being re-elected as president of the United States. “I would be happier if this man wasn't there, but I'm glad that it happened because it's going to be a shock,” he said, also recalling the words he spoke at the Golden Globes ceremony at the beginning of January: “This is the fight of good against evil. There is a struggle of retrograde people, with little mental capacity, who are against freedom, respect, affection, love and the existence of a just and egalitarian society. “This is how we have to fight.”
The interpreter has acknowledged that she is “sorry” that there are people like Trump and Bolsonaro, whom she has defined as “a mix between village bosses and latest generation fascists,” who are “taking over the institutions of many countries by selling hatred that Others buy from them with tremendous ease, without understanding that the only ones it will harm are those who vote for them.” “I don't know how we can go back and repeat the mistakes we have made in the past,” he added.
In line with what she herself has been expressing through her social networks, the Oscar candidacy has come to Karla Sofía Gascón after a wave of transphobic attacks: “I have received the nomination amidst insults, threats of all kinds and humiliation.” ”. “We are constantly going backwards in human rights. It is not normal that I always feel in a kind of apartheid as if I were guilty of the evils of this world, from people not having jobs to bathrooms being dirty,” he criticized.
The actress, although she has assured that she has “a lot of energy left”, has confessed to being “a little fed up” with social networks because of the groups of 'haters' that are “creating a kind of attack” against her: “I feel constantly attacked all over the world”. “If not, then it's the 'colleagues' from Mexico or the extreme right. Nobody wants to talk about the game that is on social networks, which is a lie.” And he has sent a message to those who use these spaces to spread hate: “When, in order to stand out, you have to belittle other people's work, your work must not be very valid.”
In Mexico it has been precisely one of the last countries in which the musical has been questioned, where she has regretted that “an organized campaign” has been generated against the film because she is the protagonist. Even so, she stated that people received her with applause: “In person, no one has said anything to me, on the contrary. There they have praised the film.” “It is the networks that manipulate everything, by teams of people who are dedicated to crushing other people and, if it occurs to you to say otherwise, they go against you.”
Do it all “with all the love in the world”
Waiting to know if she will finally win the statuette for Best Leading Actress on March 2, Karla Sofía Gascón wanted to send a message to all children and adults, “to all the people” who are excited about something in life. life: “Let them do it with all the love in the world, let them be themselves, don't copy anyone, enjoy and put their whole soul into what they do. It is the way to get ahead at work, whether you are a baker or an electrician.”
The actress has acknowledged that for her, her current success corresponds to her previous failure. “Now I am myself, I do what I want to do and I don't let myself be manipulated. Before, I didn't get in the boat or do what others wanted me to do. I am not going to leave my success today to try to please anyone,” he assured.
Of her fellow nominees, she laughingly commented that she sees herself “all the time” with Demi Mooreprotagonist of The substanceand who talk constantly: “She is one of the kindest and most loving ladies I have ever met in Hollywood. It's wonderful.” He also has a good relationship with Cynthia Erivo, nominated for Wicked, He even sent her some flowers to congratulate her. And he has already taken the opportunity to thank the politicians, starting with the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, who have also sent him messages to applaud him for the nomination he achieved.
