Conan O’Brien poked fun at Karla Sofia Gascón’s controversial tweets during his 2025 Oscars monologue.
“‘Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times,” O’Brien said. “That’s three times more than the record set by the publicist of Karla Sofía Gascón.”
While the audience laughed, the former talk show host noted that Gascón was in the audience.
“Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel,” he jokingly added.
The “Emilia Pérez” star, who is nominated this evening for best actress recently came under fire for negative tweets she made about Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the 2021 Academy Awards after they resurfaced in late January.
Journalist Sarah Hagi posted screenshots of the tweets – which spanned from May 2016 to April 2023 – to X one week after Oscar nominations were announced.
Ahead of the show, Academy CEO Bill Kramer urged people to have an “air of respect” for the best actress nominee.
“The Academy does not condone hate speech — I want to be very clear about that,” Kramer said in a statement Friday. “Karla’s nomination is historic. That’s really important. She’s still a nominee. We honor that, but we do not condone hate speech.”
“If Karla joins us for the night, I hope there is an air of respect,” Kramer continued. “We have over 200 nominees. The night is about much more than one person. We are there to celebrate all of our nominees.”
The actress, 52, made history as the first transgender woman to be nominated for best actress in a leading role for her performance in “Emilia Pérez.” Netflix’s Spanish-language French crime musical received 13 Oscar nominations, the most of any film this year.
Hagi’s post quickly led to online outcry for Gascon’s nomination to be rescinded. Internet sleuths were quick to find more of Gascón’s insensitive posts, including one from 2022 where she referred to “Emilia Pérez” costar Selena Gomez as a “rich rat.”
After the backlash began to garner mainstream attention, the actress was promptly distanced from the rest of the “Emilia Pérez” awards campaign.
