The third act of Karla Sofía Gascón is underway. After an unstoppable rise from Cannes to the Golden Globes and a noisy posterior fall to the Oscars, the time of redemption is now. The Spanish actress, 52, begins to recover the favor of the public and the profession timidly, with steps that show that, although it has not been done with the Oscar, her career does not have to be finished and that the controversial tweets recovered at the end of January can be forgotten as a stumble on the road.
After receiving the award of the Union of Actors of Spain just 10 days ago, now Gascon has been seen with another very important support within the industry: that of the CEO (CEO) of Netflix, Ted Saraonds. The executive director of the world’s most famous content platform, the same that bought the rights of the film Emilia Pérez In the United States, he has talked about Gascón in a long interview and has granted his forgiveness, stating that he would return to work with her without a doubt. A fundamental support in the career of Alcobendas and that can suppose his forgiveness in the world of cinema.
Saramonds, 60, has made those statements in an interview granted in Los Angeles to the entertainment media Varietyon the occasion of his 25 years in the company, which he himself helped to transform to become a video club that sent DVDs by mail to his subscribers to a global content platform with 300 million subscribers and a value of more than 400,000 million dollars in the stock market. Being questioned about whether he was disappointed by not yet achieved the Oscar for Best Film, he explains that they have been the platform with more nominations in the last three years, and that this speaks of “respect and admiration” by the Film Academy, which is a lot. Then, they ask him, if there had not been “the controversy with Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweets,” could they have won the statuette? “I hate that question, because it generates all those ‘and yes …”. “He went in the head,” the executive acknowledges, “but it was never certain that Emilia Pérez, With all your innovation and emotion, you will win best film. It was a great movie, a great campaign, and it saddens me that they throw all those ‘and yes …
When asked about whether, from now on, they will investigate the actors and their social networks more, he affirms that what they investigate are “basically the headlines”, and explains that he does not use Twitter (now X) and that he will not look at accounts of others. “So would I work with Karla again?” “Yes,” he replies. “You have to be benevolent when people make failures, and we are benevolent,” he says.
Have the support of one of the most powerful men in the global entertainment industry, which opted for Emilia Pérez After he won in Cannes to make her an Oscar candidate in the US, he is not less. Netflix has made a millionaire campaign; The specialized media suggest that it has spent more than 20 million dollars in promotion of the film, which became nominated for 13 Oscar but only achieved two. Hence, the company would bother when the messages of the actress endangered the race to the film awards, and to cut the tap to go to more events in the film. After his controversial messages, in the middle of the awards season prior to the Oscar, Gascon went out to defend himself, but the harsh criticism, especially the film director, Jacques Audiard, made him remain in total silence. And finally, as compensation for that silence, Netflix decided to remove the veto and Gascon went to the Oscars, although in a discreet way, in a first step for his return.
At the moment, Gascón has the adaptation of The badthe novel by Camila Sosa Villada that will take to the cinema the director and screenwriter of the Oscar Armando Bo. Five days after those messages in X came to light, she commented that she had “signed projects” that were going to move on. But he also recognized that he did not know where his professional future was going to go: “both from the film that has already been made public,” he said in reference to The bad“Like the following signed projects, the Spanish and French film, have sent me messages of support. And later, if I have to make a living with something else, I will do it. What I am not going to allow is to shut me up so as not to be able to defend myself.”
But little by little Gascón is raising the flight. She, who felt that she has been very alone, stated by the industry, is going back. This next weekend is expected to go to the closure of the Malaga Film Festival and walk through its red carpet. In addition, in mid -February the publishing house two mustaches decided to suspend the publication of a corrected and reviewed edition of Sufferthe biographical novel that the interpreter launched in 2018, but it seems that now her literary projects also recover again. And little by little the redemption begins for Karla Sofía Gascón.