section_path: Career/2018–2024: Transition, Emilia Pérez and fallout
section_name: 2018–2024: Transition, Emilia Pérez and fallout
paragraph_text: 2018–2024: Transition, Emilia Pérez and fallout
  
  In 2018, having completed most of her gender transition, Gascón published a magical realist memoir, Karsia, Una historia extraordinaria (Karsia: an Extraordinary Story) under the name Carlos Gascón. It doubled as a public announcement of her new identity as Karla Sofía Gascón.
  
  She portrayed Lourdes Buendía in the teen drama series Rebelde (2022). In 2024, she starred in Jacques Audiard 's musical crime film Emilia Pérez, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In it, she portrays a powerful cartel leader who is married with children. The character fakes her death, medically transitions from male to female, and assumes a new life as Emilia Pérez.
  
  Gascón won the festival's Best Actress prize, shared jointly with her three female costars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña. Gascón is the first openly trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes. Later in the year, she became a Chevalière of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In December 2024, she was reported to have signed on to star as Aunt Encarna in Las malas, an adaptation of Camila Sosa Villada 's Bad Girls to be directed by Armando Bó.
  
  In January 2025, after her Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for Emilia Pérez, a series of tweets Gascón made between 2019 and 2021 resurfaced. They were identified as containing bigoted speech against several communities, including one calling Islam a "hotbed of infection for humanity", ones with Catalanophobic content, and one wondering whether the Oscars had become an "Afro-Korean festival", a " Black Lives Matter demonstration", or International Women's Day. Gascón deleted the tweets and apologized, then deactivated her X account the next day. In February 2025 she was dropped from promotional activities for Emilia Pérez, including award shows (Premios Goya), and her book's publication was canceled. Gascón described herself as a victim of cancel culture.
  
  In 2025, she appeared in the Italian comedy film Men and Other Inconveniences.
  
  She made her return to a film set after the tempestuous Emilia Pérez awards season with the shooting of Western adventure film Trinidad, set to portray a villainous role, which she described as " Darth Vader, but female".
  
  In 2018, having completed most of her gender transition, Gascón published a magical realist memoir, Karsia, Una historia extraordinaria (Karsia: an Extraordinary Story) under the name Carlos Gascón. It doubled as a public announcement of her new identity as Karla Sofía Gascón.
  
  She portrayed Lourdes Buendía in the teen drama series Rebelde (2022). In 2024, she starred in Jacques Audiard 's musical crime film Emilia Pérez, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In it, she portrays a powerful cartel leader who is married with children. The character fakes her death, medically transitions from male to female, and assumes a new life as Emilia Pérez.
  
  Gascón won the festival's Best Actress prize, shared jointly with her three female costars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña. Gascón is the first openly trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes. Later in the year, she became a Chevalière of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In December 2024, she was reported to have signed on to star as Aunt Encarna in Las malas, an adaptation of Camila Sosa Villada 's Bad Girls to be directed by Armando Bó.
  
  In January 2025, after her Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for Emilia Pérez, a series of tweets Gascón made between 2019 and 2021 resurfaced. They were identified as containing bigoted speech against several communities, including one calling Islam a "hotbed of infection for humanity", ones with Catalanophobic content, and one wondering whether the Oscars had become an "Afro-Korean festival", a " Black Lives Matter demonstration", or International Women's Day. Gascón deleted the tweets and apologized, then deactivated her X account the next day. In February 2025 she was dropped from promotional activities for Emilia Pérez, including award shows (Premios Goya), and her book's publication was canceled. Gascón described herself as a victim of cancel culture.
  
  In 2025, she appeared in the Italian comedy film Men and Other Inconveniences.
  
  She made her return to a film set after the tempestuous Emilia Pérez awards season with the shooting of Western adventure film Trinidad, set to portray a villainous role, which she described as " Darth Vader, but female".