To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.” In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd.

Netflix is distancing itself from "Emilia Pérez" star Karla Sofía Gascón in an effort to salvage the film's Oscar prospects.

Netflix has distanced itself from Karla Sofía Gascón following backlash over past social media posts that were deemed Islamophobic and racist

Netflix has removed Karla Sofía Gascón from the promotion of the movie Emilia Pérez due to past controversial messages she shared.

The director of Emilia Pérez addressed the controversy surrounding the movie's star — Karla Sofía Gascón. Michael Kovac / Getty Images for Netflix, Rich Polk / Penske Media via Getty Images In an interview with Deadline, French writer-director Jacques Audiard responded to Karla's slew of resurfaced, anti-Muslim, racist, and offensive tweets.

Offensive historic tweets posted by the transgender star of the Netflix film that picked up 13 Oscar nominations have led to a swirling controversy and an awards campaign in disarray.

Netflix clearly didn’t either. The streamer was sitting pretty with Emilia Pérez and its 13 nominations—not only the most for a single film this year, but one short of the all-time record. Executives were probably already pulling out the Champagne before Best Actress frontrunner Karla Sofía Gascón swept in to annihilate not only her own chance at a statue,

The actress’s old social media posts have threatened to derail the film’s Oscar campaign, but backlash has been building for months for other reasons.

Jacques Audiard, the writer and director of Emilia Pérez, made his first comments in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding Karla Sofía Gascón.