Zoe Saldaña continues to think through the backlash against her Emilia Pérez costar Karla Sofía Gascón, after racist and Islamophobic social media posts that she had made in the past surfaced on social media Jan.

Journalist Sara Hagi discovered Gascón’s history of racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic posts on Thursday, days after Gascón became the first openly trans person to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. While some of the since-deleted posts dated to 2016, she’d made others as recently as 2023.

Emilia was done with so much of all of those things. Zoe Saldaña continued to express gratitude for her fellow cast members, including Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, emphasizing how their collective efforts made the film possible: When we all came together,