Trans Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón cries, laments being ‘sacrificed and crucified’ for old tweets

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The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón responded to the massive public backlash by setting up an interview with CNN en Español, “without the involvement of anyone working on the film, which was distributed by Netflix.”The performer offered, “my most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended by the ways I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future,” but vowed not to step down from the nomination during the tearful interview.“I cannot renounce a nomination because what I have done is a job and what is being valued is my acting work,” Gascón told anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And I cannot renounce a nomination either because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone.

I am not a racist, nor am I anything that all these people have taken it upon themselves to try to make others believe that I am.”The Oscar nominee instead argued, as translated by Google, “I believe that I have been judged, condemned and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.”Gascón also attempted to clarify comments about Floyd, with the Hollywood Reporter summarizing the performer had “merely intended to point out the hypocrisy surrounding his elevation as a symbol of oppression.”“He was a person who had been in a very difficult situation in his life and no one had helped him, and suddenly he becomes a symbol of a cause and everyone loved him,” Gascón told Arciniegas, as translated by The Hollywood Reporter. “But for someone to think that… I have ever insulted a person because of their skin color, I do not allow that to anyone, to anyone.”Fox News Digital reached out to Gascón’s management last week and did not receive an immediate reply..