Made Oscar history
Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history on Thursday, becoming the first openly trans actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as the title character in “Emilia Pérez.”
Awww isn’t that nice. He made history by stealing a best actress nomination from a woman. Women notoriously struggle to get any parts at all in movies, because most movies are 80 or 90 or 110% peopled by men, and now here’s this sweet guy taking a woman’s part and a woman’s nomination from an actual woman. He made part of the history of Misogyny in Hollywood; congratulations.
In the Netflix musical directed by Jacques Audiard, Gascón plays a cartel boss who tries to atone for her past after transitioning in secret. She previously received best-actress nominations from the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards for the role.
Oh sweet. Two more nominations stolen from women. Bitches might as well just retire from the business, amirite?
He’s a man playing the role of a man.
John LIthgow, in the 1982 movie “The World According To Garp”, played the part of a male “transsexual”. He was nominated for an Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
The only difference in the current situation is that Gascón claims he actually is a woman. Oh, and some of the scenes of the film involve his character before he “came out” or had surgery.
In Garp, certainly in the book (I don’t recall much about the movie), various TV announcers were very careful to refer to Lithgow’s character, from during his football days, using “she/her” pronouns, despite him not claiming to be female at that time. This use of pronouns was considered “polite”.