"Emilia Pérez" director Jacques Audiard spoke out about Karla Sofía Gascón's offensive posts amid the backlash that Gascón has received in the past week.

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.

Unfortunately, this could affect Karla's Emilia Pérez costar and Best Supporting Actress frontrunner, Zoe Saldaña. In the wake of Karla's damage control press tour, Variety changed its official Oscars prediction for the category from Zoe to Ariana Grande, suggesting that Zoe might end up being collateral damage.

The offensive tweets by 'Emilia Perez' star Karla Sofía Gascón reveal the Oscar contender to be an eerily prescient cautionary tale.

Before Gascón came under scrutiny for her posts, Emilia Pérez had already been established as the villain of awards season. It frequently happens that one film emerges as the most-hated among its peers — and it often wins Best Picture because negative sentiment alone doesn’t always sway academy voters.

Selena Gomez addressed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival the controversy casting a shadow over her film 'Emilia Pérez.'

Still, she insists she's proud of the Oscar-nominated film and says she "would do this movie over and over again if I could."

"I would do this movie over and over again if I could.” Selena Gomez is proud of the work in Emilia Pérez despite all the controversy surrounding her costar Karla Sofía Gascón. At the Santa Barbara International Film Festival over the weekend (via The Hollywood Reporter),

Emilia Pérez is one of the many films that’s been gaining positive buzz amid this awards season but, just a few weeks ago, controversy began swirling around one of the film’s stars. Lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón found herself in hot water over resurfaced tweets in which she made contentious comments on multiple topics.