Selena Gomez has broken her silence as her film “Emilia Perez” is caught up in a PR crisis due to past social media posts by co-star Cara Sofia Gascon.
Golden Globe nominees in her Virtuosos Award-winning Q&A at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Sunday, when the recent controversy is about her as Netflix crime drama musical collects trophies at the Hollywood Awards show He admitted that it had an impact on the way he felt.
“I’m fine. I’m really fine,” said Gomez, 32. “Part of the magic has disappeared. But I choose to be proud of what I did. I’m just grateful. I live without regrets . “
Gomez’s comments have been published after director Jacques Audiard called her past social media posts “unforgivable” in an interview with Deadline on February 5, days after director Jacques Audiard distanced himself from Gascón. I confirmed that I had not been in contact with her. In recent weeks, Gascon has released numerous official statements in response to racist and xenophobic social media posts that X users resurface at the end of January.
This is a key time for Hollywood’s awards season, with “Emilia Perez” leading with 13 nominations in the final polls for the Academy Awards on March 2, scheduled for February 18th.
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Gascon offered her “heartfelt apologies” for her past comments targeting Muslim people, Oscar’s diversity and George Floyd. “They achieved their goals and achieved the removal of my existence from the context and defile lies and things.”
In a 50-minute interview with Juan Carlos Arciniegas of CNN en Español on February 2, Gascón said he was not “recognized” some of the old posts that social media users called on per CNN.
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During the Q&A, Gomez expressed excitement about his acting career. This marks Emmy Awards and Golden Globe nominations for “Murder in a Building” and “Emilia Perez” respectively.
“Along with what’s obvious, having someone see something inside me was a very special experience,” Gomez said. “The director really trusted me. I was so grateful for the people because I showed people what I could do more and hopefully this is just the beginning for me in this field. .”
She also questioned her future as a singer.
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“I’m ready to focus on this for a while,” Gomez said. “I think film and art are around incredibly talented people that only raised me up halfway through. I don’t know. It’s hard to get me back to music after this. Sho.”
Gomez laughed for at least 10 seconds after the festival crowd expressed shock at this entrance. When asked if she would never say “Never say it,” the Disney Channel alumni replied “Maybe.”
Gascon was also one of the winners of this year’s Virtos Awards, but he was not attending the film festival. The award is presented to “promising” actors for achieving breakthrough performances. He was also named Kieran Culkin, Ariana Grande, Mikey Madison Harris Dickinson, Clarence McLin and John Magallo.
Meanwhile, “Emilia Perez” co-star Zoe Saldanya has been named the recipient of Sbiff’s American Riviera Award, celebrating “a outstanding achievement in American films.” The actress has also criticised Gascon’s post.
“It makes me really sad because I don’t support (it) and I have no tolerance for negative rhetoric towards people of any group,” Saldanya said in a January 31 Q&A, which stated that Hollywood. Reporter.