Zoe Saldaña Is 'Disappointed' by Costar Karla Sofía Gascón's Offensive Tweets but Still 'Proud' ofEmilia Pérez

Mar. 15, 2025

Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofìa Gascón.Photo:Araya Doheny/Getty; TheStewartofNY/GC

Araya Doheny/Getty; TheStewartofNY/GC

“I’m sad. Time and time again, that’s the word because that is the sentiment that has been living in my chest since everything happened,” Saldaña, 46, toldVariety. “I’m also disappointed. I can’t speak for other people’s actions. All I can attest to is my experience, and never in a million years did I ever believe that we would be here.”

The outlet noted that Saldaña did not respond directly when asked whether she had spoken with Gascón in the seven days since journalist Sarah Hagi first sharedscreenshots of now-deleted posts on Xfrom Gascón’s past.

“I feel like I’ve spoken enough about it,” Saldaña said, adding that she is still processing the situation. “It’s not just something we have to figure out immediately.”

Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez.Shanna Besson/PAGE 114

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“I haven’t spoken to her, and I don’t want to,” Audiard said. “She is in a self-destructive approach that I can’t interfere in, and I really don’t understand why she’s continuing. Why is she harming herself? … She’s talking about herself as a victim, which is surprising. It’s as if she thought that words don’t hurt.”

When asked about Gascón’s comment in aCNN en Españolinterview that aired Feb. 2, in which Gascón said she believed Saldaña and costarSelena Gomez"support me 200 percent," Saldaña toldVariety, “I do not support any negative rhetoric of racism and bigotry towards any group of people. That is what I want to stand for.”

Karla Sofía Gascon, Selena Gomez, Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldaña and Adriana Paz on Oct. 11, 2024.Jeff Spicer/Getty

Jeff Spicer/Getty

Gascón, for her part, most recently wrote in a Tuesday, Feb. 4Instagrampost that she has “nothing to hide” and that she wants “the freedom to exist without fear, to create art without barriers and to move forward with my new life.”

source: people.com