Netflix has been quiet because the social media previous of its Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón surfaced in late January, forcing modifications to and awkward conversations for her castmates on the awards marketing campaign path for Jacques Audiard’s formidable Spanish-language drug cartel musical.
However on Thursday, Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria was requested what she considered the controversy on an episode of the podcast The City.
“You understand what I believe is known as a bummer [is] for 100 very extremely proficient individuals who made a tremendous film,” she stated. “In case you have a look at the nominations and all the awards like it’s obtained, I believe it’s such a bummer that it’s distracted from that.”
Bajaria praised the awards marketing campaign for the pic, which started method again in Could after it hit the Cannes Movie Competition, profitable a combo Finest Actress prize for Gascón, her eventual fellow Oscar nominee Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.
She additionally stated that “for those who requested me right now, every thing I do know? We might nonetheless purchase the film right now.”
“That film is unbelievable — it’s artistic and it’s daring and that what you need,” she added. “You need to take these large swings. And so sure, there’s extremely proficient individuals who made that film that, by the way in which, resonated with lots of people this yr.”
After Emilia Pérez picked up a number one 13 Oscar nominations together with Finest Image and a Finest Actress nom for Gascon (a primary for a trans actress) a journalist uncovered a a collection of racist and Islamophobic previous tweets. After makes an attempt to defend them, Gascón has been skipping awards ceremonies together with the PGAs, DGAs, Critics Selection, Spain’s Goyas along with move on the BAFTAs this weekend. In the meantime, her co-stars and Audiard have been requested concerning the controversy at each cease.
Final week, she wrote that she deliberate to be silent all through Emilia Pérez‘s Oscar marketing campaign to “permit the movie to be appreciated for what it’s.”
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