On Thursday, Spanish media reported that Gascón – who has apologised for the comments made in old posts on X – would not be attending Saturday’s Goya awards, which are Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars. It also emerged that Dos Bigotes, a publishing house specialising in LGBTQ+, gender and feminist themes, has dropped plans for a revised edition of a biographical novel that Gascón published in Mexico in 2018.

His colleague, the labour minister and deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz, was asked about the matter during a radio interview.

“I was absolutely delighted when she was nominated because of the symbolism and the force of what she represents,” she told Cadena Ser. “When I read the tweets, which aren’t tweets but are reflections of what a person thinks, I was deeply upset.”

Although the recently unearthed social media posts – in which Gascón called George Floyd “a drug addict swindler” and said Islam was “becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity” – are thought to have destroyed her Oscar hopes, some have questioned the scale and ferocity of the backlash the actor faces.