To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.” In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd.

Netflix is distancing itself from “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón following backlash over past social media posts that were deemed Islamophobic and racist. “Emilia Pérez,” a musical and crime drama about a Mexican drug trafficker seeking gender reassignment surgery,

Netflix is distancing itself from "Emilia Pérez" star Karla Sofía Gascón in an effort to salvage the film's Oscar prospects.