Zoe Saldaña Breaks Silence On Racist Tweets From 'Emilia Pérez' Co-Star Karla Sofía Gascón

Gascón's series of racist social media posts were unearthed Thursday by journalist Sara Hagi.

Zoe Saldaña is “sad” about the dust-up over Karla Sofía Gascón’s old racist social media post, but she isn’t throwing her “Emilia Pérez” co-star under the bus.

“I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad,” Saldaña said during a Q&A session in London on Friday, per The Hollywood Reporter. “It makes me really sad because I don’t support and don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group.”

“I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and every individual that is a part of this film, and my experience and interactions with them was incredibly about inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural and gender equity,” she added. “And it just saddens me.”Gascón appeared anything but inclusive in the racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on X, formerly Twitter, that

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.