“Emilia Pérez”: Selena Gomez claims to have no regrets despite the controversy

“I will do this film again and again if I could”. Selena Gomez spoke about the controversy that has clipped the film “Emilia Pérez” since the discovery of former tweets of the main actress Karla Sofía Gascón deemed offensive and racist. Messages that led to the withdrawal of the star actress from the film campaign for the Oscars.

“The magic has disappeared a little but I choose to continue to be proud of what I did, and I am just grateful. I live without regrets. And I will do this film again and again if I could, “said Selena Gomez this Sunday during the Santa Barbara Film Festival, when receiving the Virtuosos Award and being applauded by the crowd.

Support all the more striking than one of the tweets exhumed from his filming comrade called her “luxury parasite” who “plays the poor when she can” and “keeps annoying her ex-friend and friend and His wife (Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber) ”. A message of which Karla Sofía Gascón had however denied being originally, unlike racist or Islamophobic messages for which she apologized.

In these posts, exhumed at the end of January by an American journalist, Karla Sofía Gascón qualified, among other things, the Islam of “home of infection for humanity” and mocked the anti -racist movement after the death of George Floyd, an American black By the police in 2020. Celling by these messages, the 52 -year -old actress apologized “as a member of a marginalized community”. She then defended herself from being “racist” in an interview with the Spanish version of the American channel CNN.