Emilia Pérez film wins prime Spanish movie prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore

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Best European movie at Goya awards goes to film on the centre of a storm over previous social media posts written by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón

Narco-musical Emilia Pérez has gained greatest European movie at Spain’s equal of the Oscars amid the fallout from its star’s previous racist and Islamophobic social media posts.

Karla Sofía Gascón – the star of the movie and the primary transgender girl to be nominated for a greatest actress Oscar – didn’t attend the ceremony after outdated social media posts emerged during which she denigrates Islam, China and African American George Floyd, unleashing a scandal that has harmed her fame and the movie.

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