Karla Sofía Gascón Reacts To Getting Teased At The Oscars

“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón didn’t mind a little teasing during Sunday’s Academy Awards.

The Best Actress nominee looked back at her Oscars experience, and host Conan O’Brien’s jokes about her, in a post on Instagram on Monday morning.

“Thanks to the members of @theacademy for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala,” she wrote in her native language Spanish. “I really liked it, very entertaining and funny, especially its fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien.”

The Kimmel mention was a wink at O’Brien telling Gascón in his Oscars monologue, “Karla, if you’re going to tweet about the Oscars, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”

Moments earlier, the former late night host ribbed the Spanish star over her awards season controversy.

“I loved ‘Anora.’ I really did. Yeah,” he told audiences. “True story. Little fact for you, ‘Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times. That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist.”

Gascón came under fire earlier this year over a collection of offensive social media posts that resurfaced after her Academy Award nomination was announced in late January.

In the posts, she insulted Muslims, criticized diversity at the Oscars and disparaged murder victim George Floyd. In another post purported to be from the Gascón, she called her co-star Selena Gomez a “rich rat.”

The actor later apologized for the “pain” her posts caused in a statement through “Emilia Pérez” distributor Netflix.

“As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain,” said Gascón, who is transgender. “All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”

But she also defended herself in an interview with CNN Español where she said her she had “not committed any crime” or “harmed anyone” with her words.

“I am neither racist nor anything that all these people have tried to make others believe I am,” she told the outlet at the time.