Days after the total listing of nominees was revealed, a author named Sarah Hagi shared screenshots of Gascón’s social media posts between 2016 and 2021 in a sequence of tweets.
Within the controversial posts, lots of which had been deleted after they reemerged, the Spanish actress criticized George Floyd, the Muslim group, and the Oscars.
One 2016 tweet, translated from Spanish by Selection, learn: “Islam is marvelous, with none machismo. Ladies are revered, and when they’re so revered they’re left with a little bit squared gap on their faces for his or her eyes to be seen and their mouths, however provided that she behaves. Though they gown this fashion for their very own enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY.”
Gascón additionally talked about Floyd and his 2020 brutal loss of life following a police encounter.
“Truthfully, I believe that only a few folks ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, however his loss of life has served to as soon as once more reveal that there are individuals who nonetheless think about Black folks to be … with out rights and think about policemen to be assassins. They’re all unsuitable,” she wrote.
In one other tweet, Gascón lambasted the Academy Awards for holding the 2021 ceremony after the COVID-19 pandemic, saying: “Increasingly the Oscars are trying like a ceremony for impartial and protest movies, I did not know if I used to be watching an Afro-Korean competition, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M. Other than that, an unpleasant, ugly gala.”