Selena Gomez Isn’t The Only ‘Emilia Pérez’ Star on a Social Media Break
The Friday Post.
Sometime between when the pool of nominees seems certain, and Oscar night, there is regularly an eleventh-hour revelation that can put one race (A24 putting Paul Schrader in Facebook jail after he said he wanted to hire Kevin Spacey) or the whole show (Kevin Hart getting booted from the host job) into a tailspin. In the last decade or so, it’s the old tweets. It’s always the old tweets! They are always the same weird, smarmy edgelord, generally offensive hot takes. (Before it was the old tweets, the voting season chaos was usually the orchestration of Harvey Weinstein.)
What will happen to the Oscar chances of Emilia Pérez now that star Karla Sofía Gascón’s old tweets have come back to light? (The quality of Emilia Pérez is really not worth discussing here.1) Emilia Pérez is the presumed Best Picture frontrunner; Gascón is the first openly trans perfo…
