Journalist Sara Hagi discovered Gascón’s history of racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on Thursday, days after Gascón became the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. While some of the since-deleted posts dated to 2016, she’d made others as recently as 2023.

Zoe Saldaña, Oscar nominated for her role in 'Emilia Perez', addressed the controversy around her co-star Karla Sofía Gascón.

Following controversial tweets written by Karla Sofía Gascón resurfacing yesterday, her Emilia Pérez co-star and fellow 2025 Oscar nominee, Zoe Saldaña reacted to it. The actress made it very clear that this whole situation makes her “really sad” and she has no “tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group.”