From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.

I'm Maria Innojosa.

Today, discussing the Oscar-nominated film, Emilia Perez,

with film thinkers from Mexico and the U.S.

To say the film, Emilia Perez has been polarizing might be an understatement it has emerged as both a standout in the award circle

but it has also become the butt of jokes for many latinos in the u.s and in mexico the memes about but dear listener before we even get into the film itself,

I have to tell you that just after we recorded the conversation

that you're about to hear, there were tweets that the lead actress

Gadla Sofia Gascon had posted a few years ago.

And while they resurfaced, and they were not good.

The 52-year-old transgender actress had posted about George Floyd using racist language.

She posted anti-Islamic rants.

And she said that the Oscars were looking more and more like Black Lives Matter protests back then.

She also used anti-Asian language during the pandemic, and well, the list goes on.

Gascone, the actress, has since apologized publicly on social media and in an interview with CNN in Spanish.

My most sincere discuses to all the people that can have felt offensive. social media and in an interview with CNN in Spanish. But the Academy has since

discurs to all the persons

that can have

been offended by the

forms that I have to express

me.

But the Academy has since

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