The Netflix content director, Bela Bajaria, spoke for the first time about the controversy unleashed around the movie “Emilia Pérez”, after old publications on social networks of the protagonist, Karla Sofía Gascón, in which He issued judgments that have been qualified as racist and xenophobes.
Bajaria said that “it is unfortunate” that the question with the Spanish actress has tarnished the image of the feature film directed by the Frenchman Jaques Audiard, in which “one hundred people with an incredible talent worked.”
“If we look at all the nominations and awards it has received, it is a pity that attention has been diverted and the conversation has been taken in a different direction [con respecto a] This incredible film “Bajaria said Friday at the” The Town “podcast.
The Netflix executive also recognized the “incredible campaign” that the cast was doing for six months, where Gascon was even nominated for Oscar as best actress for her work on the film. Therefore, he said that, even knowing the protagonist’s publications, “he would buy the film again, because it is incredible, creative and bold.”
Likewise, Bajaria said that, although the situation has raised many questions and aroused conversations about how to examine talent and social networks, it must be considered that it is “tens of thousands of people around the world” and that they are their personal accounts .
