Netflix now wants nothing to do with Karla Sofía Gascón

When we said this was going to be an unpredictable awards season back in December, we had no way of knowing the extent of the mess that was to come. Netflix clearly didn't either. The streamer was sitting pretty with Emilia Pérez and its 13 nominations—not only the most for a single film this year, but one short of the all-time record. Executives were probably already pulling out the Champagne before Best Actress frontrunner Karla Sofía Gascón swept in to annihilate not only her own chance at a statue, but potentially the entire movie's with it.

If you haven't waded into the depths of Gascón's racist, Islamophobic, and violently hateful unearthed tweets, you may want to keep it that way. However bad you think they are, they're probably worse. (There are simply too many to reprint in this brief newswire, but Jezebel has a good rundown here.) Every time she's attempted to apologize, she's only made the situation worse, most recently discussing it in a tearful interview she reportedly set up without the involvement or knowledge of anyone at the streamer.

Unsurprisingly, Netflix has not taken kindly to any of this. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón was supposed to fly from her native Spain to Los Angeles for multiple campaign events this week. Now, she won't be getting on a plane at all—especially not on Netflix's dime. At this point, Gascón and the streamer are reportedly only communicating through the actress' agent, with the latter refusing to bankroll any of her remaining campaign expenses (accommodation, airfare, etc.). In recent days, Netflix has also scrubbed Gascón from as much of Emilia Pérez's marketing as it could, including email blasts and FYC posters. It also reportedly plans to swap out billboards featuring the actress with new images highlighting the film's supporting cast.

Speaking of the rest of the cast, Best Supporting Actress nominee Zoe Saldaña isn't pleased about the whole situation either. (Variety switched its Oscar prediction from Saldaña to Ariana Grande after everything went down, so you can see how she'd be a bit peeved.) "It makes me really sad because I don’t support (it), and I don't have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group," Saldaña said of her co-star's rhetoric. "All that I can attest is that all of us that came together to tell this story, we came together for love and for respect and curiosity, and we will continue to spread that message. That's all we can say right now."