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Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is catching heat for controversial takes she posted online in recent years about everything from Islam to George Floyd. The 'Emilia Pérez' star's posts on X started to make the rounds early Thursday morning.

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00:00Oscar nominee Carla Sofia Gascogne is catching heat for controversial takes she posted online

00:04in recent years about everything from Islam to George Floyd. The Emilia Perez's stars' posts

00:11on X started to make the rounds early Thursday morning and were deleted not soon after. Less

00:16than a month after Floyd was murdered in Minnesota in 2020, inciting nationwide Black Lives Matter

00:21rallies, Gascogne shared these words, saying, I truly believe that very few people ever cared

00:26about George Floyd and calling him a drug addict and a hustler. Later that year, she took aim at

00:33Muslims in her native Spain when she wrote this post that says in part, sorry, is it just my

00:38impression or are there more and more Muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter

00:42from school, there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels.

00:49Regarding Islam, she suggested a ban. She wrote, until we ban religions that go against European

00:55values and violate human rights, such as Islam, under the protection of freedom of worship,

01:00we will not end part of the huge problem we face. Faith manipulates those who cling to faith.

01:05Gascogne's posts were in Spanish and have been translated for this story. Many social media users

01:09expressed surprise that amid an always heated awards season race, the posts remained up on the

01:14site for as long as they did. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to reps for Gascogne and

01:18Netflix for comment. Gascogne made history as the first trans person to be nominated for best

01:23actress while her film, Amelia Perez, topped this year's awards with 13 nominations.

01:28For more on this story, go to THR.com. This is the Hollywood Reporter News.

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