He is the second Spanish actress, after Penelope Cruz, to compete for the Oscar for Best Actress, and yet Karla Sofía Gascón (Alcobendas, 52 years) has received many congratulations (“From the president of the Government to the mayor of my hometown” ) And also many insults: “There is a struggle of people, retrograde or with little mental capacity, which are against freedom and respect, love, love and a fair and equal society. I have received the Oscar nomination between insults, threats of all kinds and vexations (…). At the moment I don’t care, I ask each of those who are so that they show me in a reliable way that I am not a lady and an actress who does not deserve this recognition. ” Gascón has made this confession in a meeting of almost 40 minutes with the Spanish press via videoconference, since it is in Punta del Este (Uruguay) in the promotion of Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s drug trafficking that Thursday became the favorite of the Oscars to achieve 13 nominations.
In that meeting, which has ended the actress crying for the emotion of the moment, Gascón has insisted on the pride she feels for her work in a film in which she plays two characters: first, Manitas, the brutal leader of a poster Mexican of drug trafficking, and, then, to Emilia Pérez, to the woman to whom she has transicted hands. “I always hope that my nomination has nothing to do with my sexuality or my hair color, but with my performance. It is a historical work for many factors ”, but that has coincided with the arrival of Donald Trump, for the second time, to the White House. “I’m glad he agreed. Well, I would be glad if this man had not been, although I’m glad because he will be a revulsion, ”he continued.
“It gives me a little pity because in the end the United States is a reference for all of us in the world. I understand the relevance of the president or another. It makes me sorry that there are people like the world, such as Bolsonaro or like all these … a mixture between town cacique and state -of -the -art fascists, who are seizing institutions in many countries, selling hatred. I do not understand how we can continue in the world, constantly going back and making the same mistakes of the past, ”he said from Uruguay.
On the Oscar, she has confessed that yes, that she has come to win: “What happened yesterday is the culmination of everything. What happens extra, it already gives me a little the same, although I want to win, obviously, I will not lie. My performance is something incredible, although some will say that I have no grandmother (laughs). My success right now is because I am myself, because I do not let myself be manipulated by anyone. I will not feel happy if another person who is not me wins, is ridiculous. I am glad for the others, but they win it another year, when I am not nominated. ” And that is why he has told that one of his rivals is written a lot, and the main contender, Demi Moore, because they are coinciding in all the awards galas, since both the films of both, Emilia Pérez y The substance, coincided at the last Cannes Festival. And also with Penelope Cruz, with which they have united “cosmic coincidences”, beyond their steps ever crossed when both were teenagers in Alcobendas.
On his figure as a spokesman for the trans collective, Gascón wanted to refine his previous speeches. Keep fighting, although he insists that it is just his opinion: “I feel very proud to use my word so that other people do not suffer the same things that I have suffered. But I can’t choose as a representative of anyone who has not chosen me. I can speak for myself, and without my words I help people who are in the same situation I will be very happy. ” However, he warned: “I am very angry that in the groups, no matter what, appropriate the word of all the members, without being granted.”
About the possible bad reception he has suffered Emilia Pérez In Mexico, a country that Gascon knows well because she has worked there almost a decade, the actress denies problems: “What is there is noise of networks. The public wants Emilia Pérez. I enjoyed it in the first projections at the Morelia Festival and repeated a few days ago when we were promoting the premiere. Some on social networks attack her because, simply, I star in. ”
And how does Gascón de Energía in the final month, before the ceremony on March 2 at the Dolby Theater? “With a lot of energy, that the truth is that I don’t know where it comes from. I have nothing left, I can’t do anything else. I am not going home right now, in the final stretch, it would be a disaster. Anyway, wanting to cross with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. ” And at the end of the press conference, he stressed: “I hope that all the votes are subjective in my favor and favor of Emilia Pérez. “