Karla Sofía Gascón has her own reasons for not attending the recent wedding of her Emilia Pérez costar Selena Gomez.
“I didn’t go to the wedding, I’m working,” Gascón recently shared on the red carpet outside the 2025 Los40 Music Awards in Valencia, Spain.
“Besides, imagine! I’m not even going to my family’s weddings, because we have to shell out. Imagine if I had to pay for Selena’s. No, no, no, I’d be ruined,” she joked.
Gascón rose from relative obscurity to Oscar nominee alongside two of the biggest stars in the world — Gomez and Zoe Saldaña — in the award-winning musical from French director Jacques Audiard. Emilia Pérez tells the story of its titular heroine (Gascón), a ruthless drug dealer who undergoes gender transition, in part, to avoid legal persecution. Saldaña shares many of her scenes with Gascón as Rita Mora Castro, an attorney who aids Emilia along her gender-affirming journey, while Gomez plays Emilia’s estranged wife Jessica Del Monte.
The trio, along with Mexican actress Adriana Paz, earned the rare honor of a joint Best Actress prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. When the musical finally arrived stateside, it led the pack at the Academy Awards with a staggering 13 nominations. Though tipped by many to sweep, the film only walked away with two trophies, likely due to the scandal that engulfed Gascón in the weeks before the ceremony.
In January, a trove of Gascón’s social media posts throughout the years resurfaced, and their contents shocked her new legion of fans and admirers.
Racism, Islamophobia, sexism, and even transphobia (Gascón herself is transgender) spewed from the posts, which variously declared that “Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity, called the slain Black Lives Matter icon George Floyd a “drug-addicted con artist,” and even referred to Gomez as a “rich rat” who will “never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend [Justin Bieber] and his wife.”
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Gascón was roundly condemned for the posts, and apologized in short order, noting, “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Gomez never directly commented on the Gascón revelation, but shared before that year’s Oscars (Gascón and Saldaña were both nominated, though only Saldaña won) that “some of the magic” generated by the film “has disappeared.”
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Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón in ‘Emilia Pérez’
Gomez married the producer Benny Blanco, her partner of two years, in September.
The ceremony held in Santa Barbara, Calif., was intimate, but still attended by several of Gomez’s celebrity pals, including Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, her Only Murders in the Building costars Martin Short and Steve Martin, and Saldańa.
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