Zoe Saldaña isn’t letting the controversy surrounding her “Emilia Pérez” costar Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive social media comments take the joy out of her experience being recognized in the Oscar race,

Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard revealed that he has not spoken to his film’s title character Karla Sofía Gascón following her controversial tweets. Audiard told Deadline Hollywood in an interview that he has severed ties with the Oscar best actress nominee amid a growing controversy regarding offensive past social media tweets and commentary that Gascón posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).

Zoe Saldaña said she is 'disappointed' by her 'Emilia Pérez' costar Karla Sofía Gascón, whose past racist posts were resurfaced amid their Oscars campaign. 'Never in a million years did I ever believe that we would be here,