00:00Are you English?
00:03No, I'm not English. Why?
00:06No, because you, uh, you are pretty.
00:09Emilia Perez director Jacques Odiard revealed that he has not spoken to his film star,
00:14Carla-Sofia Gascon, following her controversial tweets.
00:17Odiard is with the Oscar Best Actress nominee amid a growing controversy
00:21regarding offensive past social media tweets and commentary that Gascon posted on X.
00:26Odiard insisted, I haven't spoken to her and I don't want to, adding,
00:30I just don't understand why she's continuing to harm us.
00:33Gascon's Best Actress Oscar prospects, as well as the wider awards season campaign for Emilia Perez,
00:39appears in disarray this week.
00:40However, the actress has continued to do the media rounds
00:43and has refused to take herself out of Oscar contention.
00:46She is in a self-destructive approach that I can't interfere in,
00:49and I really don't understand why she's continuing.
00:52Why is she harming herself? Why?
00:53I don't understand it.
00:54And what I don't understand about this, too,
00:57is why she's harming people who are very close to her.
00:59Odiard continued,
01:01I'm thinking in this thing of how hurting others,
01:03of how she's hurting the crew,
01:04and all these people who work so incredibly hard on this film.
01:07I'm thinking of myself.
01:08I'm thinking of Zoe and Selena.
01:10The controversy follows Gascon becoming the first openly transgender performer
01:14to be nominated for an Oscar in an acting category.
01:17I'm not getting in touch with her because right now,
01:19she needs space to reflect and take accountability for her actions.
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