Oscar hopeful Karla Sofia Gascon’s woes over a series of offensive social media posts deepened on Thursday after a diversity-centred Spanish publishing house dropped plans to reprint her book.
Gascon, the first transgender woman Oscar nominee for best actress, seemed set for lasting fame after the narco-musical “Emilia Perez” in which she stars won a record number of Oscar nominations for a foreign-language movie.
But last week’s unearthing of old posts denigrating Islam and George Floyd has unleashed a scandal that has harmed her reputation and the film’s chances of Oscars glory.
The Spaniard, 52, has apologised and says she is not a racist.
Dos Bigotes, a publishing house specialising in LGBTQ, gender and feminist themes, said on Thursday it had suspended the publication of a revised biographical novel of Gascon that first appeared in Mexico in 2018.
The firm “has always been committed to equality, inclusion and diversity… therefore, …