And the winner of the Cannes Best Actress award is....

It's annoying that this person is now being challenged over their female Oscar nomination for their social media posts, and not because they're not a woman.

He is a typical misogynist male chauvinist pig. But he is the holy grail and sacred caste that is trans. I still believe he'll win Best 'Actress'. Racism is ok if you're trans. Misogyny is ok if you're trans. Being a rapist is ok if you're trans. There is not one single crime a transwoman could do that would remove their hero status. Not one. He could literally rape a child now and still be a hero. He's....trans!! He'll win the award, sadly, mark my words. If anything, I bet the Academy voters will feel for him more now, and see him a victim of a witch hunt. And give him the sympathy vote because of it.

Haha!

There was an interesting article in the Telegraph yesterday, which was mainly about KSG blowing themselves up on social media and in the freelance CNN interview. But it told me a couple of things I didn’t know.

That Netflix bought the film after it was a hit at Cannes, and Netflix campaign for awards really aggressively, putting about 200 people on the case.

KSG was only a middling TV actor, known only in Mexico, before Emilia Perez so likely unused to this level of fame and scrutiny. A more established star would have been better advised and supported.

Someone really dropped the ball in failing to do any due diligence.

Ah, thanks. I did do that. Hopefully, still readable!

It's probably that you did two dashes at the beginning and end of the text

like this

I don’t know why there’s strikethrough text above. There’s not supposed to be and it’s too late to edit.

I watched this the other night. It's not very good! I'm completely baffled by how it drew so much praise in Cannes and picked up so many BAFTA and Oscar nominations (the most Oscar noms ever! tying only with Gone With The Wind!), and have been enjoying all the fallout over the last few days. It's not just KSG's comments of course; there's wider backlash about its portrayal of Mexico, its sloppy attitude to the Spanish language and its treatment of transition. Critics who were early champions of the film seem to be walking it back.

The collision of genres seems to have struck critics as very bold and having a central trans character gives instant progressive points, although I didn't think it was particularly trans-positive. Manitas/Emilia Perez is quickly revealed to be a controlling, gaslighting, violent narcissist. The director seems interested in the possibilities of leaving an old self behind, but not in any trendy ideas about gender identity. The transition is presented as a fait accompli. We don't see any suffering or struggle (but are told it happened) and the transition is presented more as a disguise rather than some revealing of the true self. It's impossible to watch this film and not think of Mrs Doubtfire. It's basically Mrs Doubtfire with cartels and songs and a soap opera sensibility.

No idea if this backlash will affect Oscar voting, which hasn't started yet. I read somewhere (and apologies if it was here) that despite the massive number of nominations, it was only expected to win in about three categories -- supporting actress for Zoe Saldana, song (the songs are terrible), and (I think) editing. KSG wasn't seriously expected to win.

Saldana won the Best Supporting Actress at the London Critics Awards yesterday and gave an incredibly emotional speech there are clips online. It did really feel like the speech of someone who can see the reputation of the film tanking before her eyes and it seemed like she genuinely believed in it. I felt quite sorry for her. She didn't namecheck KSG.

I don't think there's any kind of conspiracy behind its popularity with the academies. They're as prone to group think as anyone else and maybe it was helped by appearing to offer some easy virtue signalling points -- although, again it doesn't feel like an especially woke film, but sometimes people vote for things without watching them. Whatever, it's blowing up in their faces now. It's very funny and I'm loving all the memes.

I agree - so sad that they don't feel they can boycott this absolute bullshit.

No edit button on MN! Because the surname is Gascon, see? Eh, people here are smart - they'll get it. :)

7 pages already - have I missed the chance to start singing the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast? "Oh, there's no girl in town half so manly...♫"

Cheers both.

Account deleted. Can't find anything on archives.

In the annual lovefest of film excellence, the 'best woman' award goes to a male asshole in a crap film.

Yes, should spoke the wheels a bit.

Oh dear. I almost hope KSG does get the Best Actress Oscar, it would show up this farce for everything it is.

Gascon previously trashed co-star Selena Gomez too, according to this:

https://weeklyvoice.com/karla-sofia-gascons-past-tweet-shading-selena-gomez-surface/

Dehumanising a woman, calling her a ‘rich rat’. The misogyny is strong in this one.

Blimey! This person just gets more and more interesting

Who and what was Gascon quote tweeting?

Ugh that glamour article. Saying 'cis male' when talking about the director and 'she she she' about karla throughout. It's almost as if that male privilege and aggression cannot help itself. Hmmm. Yet they lie to us and it reads as if it's a female having a meltdown. Okay dokey.

Wow what a shitshow! Be interesting to see what happens at the oscars now.

The Oscars and Academy etc brought this on themselves: if the great and good continue to treat males who transition as though they come from a higher sphere of being, or belong on a pedestal, simply for the act of saying they are a woman then they're going to experience further disappointed in the manner currently happening 🤷‍♀️

Just give Oscars to actors/actresses who give a good performance and treat their colleagues well and stop pretending they're all the equivalent of modern day gurus or saints.