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 has responded to the controversy enveloping her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, after a wave of offensive social media posts were resurfaced online. Saldaña, 46, starred alongside Gascón, 52, in the Netflix movie, which was nominated for 13 Oscars last month.