Posted on 07/03/2018 4:19:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
With the final Avengers movie set for release in May 2019, Scarlett Johansson is ready to look for new and exciting characters to play. In fact, according to ScreenCrush, Johansson is gearing up to reunite with her Ghost in the Shell director, Rupert Sanders, in a new project titled Rub & Tug. However, the star's role in the film is being met with some controversy, particularly because Johansson's new role may be a transgender man.
UPDATE: Scarlett Johansson issued this comment to Bustle via a representative: "Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman's reps for comment."
EARLIER: Rub & Tug will tell the fascinating story of a massage parlor owner in 1970s Pittsburg whose business served as a front for prostitution in the red light district. Johansson is set to star as said parlor owner, Dante "Tex" Gill, who The Hollywood Reporter describes as "a woman [Jean Marie Gill] who succeeded in Pittsburgh's 1970s and 1980s massage parlor and prostitution business by assuming the identity of a man, Dante 'Tex' Gill." However, other publications like Vulture have described Johansson's character as a "transmasculine crime boss," while others, like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, called the real-life Gill a lesbian "who dressed like a man in suits and ties, wore short hair and sideburns and preferred to be called 'Mr. Gill.'"
All three of these descriptions are somewhat different, and depending upon which one is more accurate, could prove highly problematic for Johansson. The obituary for Gill alleged that "she may even have undergone the initial stages of a sex change that made her appear masculine."
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She’s not a very good actress. No range of emotions.
Ghost In The Shell was lame. Avengers suits her because she’s not a major part and could be dropped without any problems for movie goers.
She thinks she is special because all her liberal friends tell her so. But this movie will suck worse than anything else she’s done. By a wide margin.
What eyes?
How about this - great hardware but the software is all screwed up.
Predictions: trannies will not like a real female playing one of them, especially one who is objectively beautiful, way more than they can ever be. They want to normalize trannies but that has to include big burly dudes in dresses who destroy girls in sporting events too. She’ll be made to aplogize.
Oh she’s playing a girl pretending to be a man, I get easily confused by pronouns these days. They’ll still say a “real” trannily addadictomy patient should play the role.
“The boobs look like plastic.”
Wesson oil.
Hope they’re OK with me giving this one a wide berth.
Say what you want but the girl does know how to walk in high heels! Might be all she does know.....
I agree. She's gorgeous. I also think she's a bit of a whack-job. Why would she want to play such a part?
Gotta disagree, don’t think she’s attractive, she is the beneficiary of Hollywood gauzian blur, glue and silicone.
Truth be told, it won’t be much of a stretch to make her look like a man.
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