Adriana Paz breaks her silence on Karla Sofía Gascón: "I don't hate her."

Following the controversy Karla Sofía Gascón faced earlier this year over her racist messages, her co-star in the film "Emilia Pérez," Mexican actress Adriana Paz, stated that she wouldn't refuse to greet her if they ever met again .

In the film, Gascón played a drug dealer who transitions to a woman, presumably to change his life, while Paz plays a woman searching for her missing partner.

Both of them, along with Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, won the Best Actress award at Cannes, and from there, the feature film began to gain traction, garnering both favorable and negative reviews for its story, earning Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

The problems began when Gascón, after receiving a nomination for an Academy Award in the United States, was revived by a series of racist messages on X. The controversy caused her to stop attending ceremonies where she was scheduled and she was attacked on her social networks.

Paz (“La tirisia ” and “ Hilda ”) says she hasn’t spoken to Gascón for months. The last time they were seen together was last October at the Morelia International Film Festival , which they attended to present “Emilia Pérez.”

"I'm not fighting with her. I told her what I had to say, and I'm not going to crucify her or anything. Who am I? Everyone is responsible for the things they say or do, and they have to accept that, but I don't hate her, I don't wish her harm," said the Mexican woman.

"If I run into her, I'll definitely say hello because she was my colleague, and as a colleague, she was generous. I don't think her work has anything to do with what she said later, because she did a great job and gave her all on set, I won't deny that ," he added.

Paz pointed out that it's normal not to agree with everyone, as in this case.

“That's life, isn't it? We shouldn't be best friends either, and the distance is difficult (Gascón lives in Spain, she lives in Mexico), maybe when I go to Madrid, I don't know. But it always happens on set, where you match with people, then you don't see them, and when you do, it's nice; there are others with whom you don't, but that's how it is,” she noted.

The actress attended the Ariel nominees meeting , an award given by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, for which she is nominated in the Actress category for her work in "Arillo de hombre muerto."

Regarding her nomination, she expressed her happiness for her latest project: “I love being nominated, especially for a film like this. It's not easy for me to like my work, honestly, and 'Dalia' is one of the characters I'm most happy with. I love the result. (…) I feel like I've reached a level of maturity as a woman, as an actress, where scenes that scared me or I felt like they wouldn't turn out well, now I see the result and I'm happy,” she considered.

In the film, she plays a Mexico City subway driver whose husband disappears without a trace, changing her life in her relationships with her children and lover amid the investigation that places her under suspicion and revictimizes her.

With information from El Universal

From Diego Luna to Ben Affleck

While waiting to attend the Ariel Awards ceremony, the actress shares that in 2025 she starred in the feature film "Ceniza en la boca" by actor and director Diego Luna, a film based on the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Brenda Navarro, which is preparing for release this year .

Additionally, she recently wrapped filming "Animals" in Los Angeles, California, under the direction of actor and director Ben Affleck, alongside Luis Gerardo Méndez, Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, and Gillian Anderson.

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