PARIS, Feb 6 — Rarely has a film fallen from favour so quickly: after gaining a record number of Oscar nominations for a foreign-language movie, narco-musical Emilia Perez has...
Oscars frontrunner ‘ Emilia Perez ’ hopes dashed as star’s old social media posts spark scandal, disrupt awards season
From being a symbol of diversity embraced by Hollywood, she has risked alienating left-leaning members of the Academy who decide the Oscar winners — despite her apologies and insistence that she is “not a racist”.for its first best picture Oscar, had dropped the 52-year-old from its campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee.
Gascon, who is Spanish, plays a drug cartel boss who transitions to life as a woman and turns her back on crime in the highly unusual musical thriller. The movie’s representation of trans issues has also left some people in the community uneasy, while the use of artificial intelligence to increase Gascon’s voice range has led to criticism in some quarters, even if post-production voice tweaking is common in the industry.
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