Karla Sofía Gascón reappears at the César Awards after the controversy on the great night of ‘Emilia Pérez’ | Oscar awards | Cinema

The intrigue of the Gala of the Cesar Awards, the most important of French cinema, was this Friday both in the distribution of awards and in what would happen with one of the nominated actresses. The eyes were fixed on Karla Sofía Gascón, for her return to the media ring and for the mystery of whether she was going to rise with the best actress, but the Spanish interpreter protagonist of the narcomusical Emilia Pérez He did not succeed. The film was still the protagonist of the night, with seven awards, including the best film and best direction.

Gascón (Alcobendas, Madrid, 52 years old) had been separated from the film promotion campaign by Netflix, which distributes it in Anglo -Saxon countries, in January, after knowing ancient tweets of a racist, xenophobic and offensive nature, and this Friday was its first appearance after the controversy. The film, directed by the Frenchman Jacques Audiard, left among the favorites, with 12 nominations. He has won the best film, adapted script and direction, in addition to better photography, sound, effects and original original music. Emilia Pérez It is one of the favorites at the Oscar Awards (13 nominations) held this Sunday, and the actress will go.

In addition, the Spanish Elena López Riera won the prize for the best documentary short film with The southern girlfriendsthe testimonial story of several women about their romantic and sexual lives that premiered at the last Cannes Festival and that went empty in the Goya. The César celebrated their 50th anniversary and have broken the pools: those that left as favorites were The Count of MontecristoMatthieu’s movie, based on Alejandro Dumas’s novel, and El love phew (Broken hearts), by Gilles Lellouche. Box office successes, with more than 14 million tickets sold in France. They stayed below the Audiard musical. The surprise was Souleymane’s storythat follows an immigrant without Guinean papers who expect their regularization. He won four awards.

Voltage at the gala

The tension between Gascón and the rest of the team was felt throughout the gala. The 52 -year -old trans actress arrived at the Olimpia theater in Paris without crossing Jacques Audiard or Zoe Saldaña, her cast partner, also nominated. Audiard, every time he got up to receive an award, passed by his side, but they barely looked at each other.

At the beginning of the gala, the presenter, Jean Pascal Zadi, tried to degrease the initial tensions a bit when presenting the nominations: “Best realization, best actress, best tweet …”. Saldaña’s face was stupor. Emilia Pérezwhich tells the story of a drug trafficker who hires a lawyer to change sex, has divided criticism, especially in Mexico, for his way of treating violence linked to drug trafficking. At the end of January, old messages on the social networks of the Madrid actress in which Islam criticized the African American George Floyd, China, the Jews, the Church and even against the Oscars themselves. Jacques Audiard himself admitted that he had taken distances with the actress: “I have not talked to her or want to do it,” said the French director. “When you have that kind of relationship and suddenly you read something that person has said, things that are absolutely hateful and worthy of being hated, of course that relationship is affected. It is as if you fell into a hole. Because what Karla Sofia said is unforgivable “

The film, which premiered in Cannes and received the jury prize and another of collective interpretation for its actresses (in addition to Gascón, Selena Gómez and Zoe Saldaña), was the second most nominated film of the Golden Globes, with 13, and won the best musical film. In addition, the Best Foreign Film Award in Los Bafta, the British César, two weeks ago, and also the best European film.

The two honorary César went to Julia Roberts, the International, and the director FrancoGriego Costa-Gavras. And the prizes for the best actor and the best actress were also against prognosis, because he did not win any of the favorites in both categories, which were Emilia Pérez (Where Gascón faced Saldaña, a favorite for the Oscar in the cast category), The Count of Montecristo y Broken hearts. The actress who snatched them was Hagsia Herzi, for the movie Borgo.

French actress Catherine Deneuve, who had refused to preside over the César awards in preceding years, inaugurated the ceremony: “I declare open the 50th edition of the César and I dedicate it to Ukraine,” he said, dressed in black, with a pin with the kyiv flag on the flap. If in preceding galas the controversy had revolved around sexual aggressions in the world of cinema, this time the act has been truffled with political references to the mandate of Donald Trump or the situation in Gaza. And with the looks on Karla Sofía Gascón.