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FRANCE Transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón has filed a legal complaint against French far-right politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, after the Reconquête Party leader posted a tweet decrying the fact that Gascón was awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
The complaint has been joined with complaints from six French LGBTQ advocacy groups. Gascón has been making waves since her international breakthrough performance in the musical gangster film “Emilia Pérez”at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
In the film, she plays a cartel leader who hires a lawyer played by Zoe Saldaña to help her flee Mexico with her wife, played by Selena Gomez, so that she can get gender-affirming surgery so she can live as a woman.
The Spanish actress became the first trans woman to win the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. After her win, Maréchal-Le Pen posted a tweet that said Gascón’s victory came at a cost for women. “Therefore, a man receives the prize for … best actress at Cannes.
