Many might be asking Netflix to do the impossible in terms of 'Emilia Pérez'

We, the general public, are likely not done hearing about the scandal involving Karla Sofía Gascón and Emilia Pérez, and that is too bad. The movie is great, and it is worthy of being nominated for 13 Academy Awards. The issue stems from tweets Gascón posted years before the movie was going to be made and had nothing to do with the streamer.

After not addressing the fiasco for the first week or so, Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria spoke about the situation on an episode of The Town podcast. She was asked, in part, if Netflix could do a better job vetting talent before either hiring them to be in a series or the streamer purchasing a project already entering production.

Bajaria answered, "I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie...It’s not really common practice for people to vet social tweets that way... A lot of people are reevaluating that... I do think it is raising questions for a lot of people about reevaluating that process."

Netflix Chief Content Officer answers questions about Karla Sofía Gascón and Emilia Pérez situation

She used the word "bummer" several times, which might come across to some as Netflix not taking Gascón's racist tweets seriously. To be fair, though there is little the streamer or most other streamers can do about a scenario that Gascón past behavior put Netflix in. The damage was done, and not until Emilia Pérez became award-worthy did many notice the past tweets.

This is not in any way meant to support what Gascón tweeted. The social media posts were wrong (and we will not print them here), but it is also impossible for a studio to vet every actor, producer, writer, and so on, before a project is made. In the end, when someone's views come to light does it make the studio look bad?

Of course, there is also a difference between something negative that is known (a producer convicted of sexual assault, for instance) and a little-known actor just making their way into the limelight who posted hateful things on social media.

The people-power and working hours alone to vet everyone is not logistically plausible. If enough people were hired to do that, it would very likely increase subscriber rates, and people would probably also be upset about that. Netflix is simply collateral damage to what Gascón created in years past.

What she did was wrong, but it is not Netflix's fault. The streamer knows it will likely keep getting questions about the situation that it did not create but, unfortunately, has to deal with it now.

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