Posted on 07/15/2018 11:39:34 AM PDT by rktman
When Scarlett Johansson was selected to play a transgender role in a forthcoming film called “Rub and Tug” there was an immediate backlash. Today, Variety reports that Johansson has backed out of the role because of the controversy:
“In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project,” Johansson told Out Magazine, which first reported the news, in a statement. “Our cultural understanding of transgender people continues to advance, and I’ve learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive…
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
IMHO she used this as an excuse to get out of a doomed project with a lousy director.
Men need not apply.
Sounds like “The Year of Living Dangerously”
It also stars Linda Hunt as the male dwarf Billy Kwan, Hamilton’s local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously_(film)
I hate to say it, but this type of thing should be absolutely encouraged. It’s in our interest that there seriously demented leftists eat the liberals who still vaguely leashed to reality.
Does this mean the queer in The Big Bang Theory who plays a straight guy must quit?The entire show is a disgrace.
It's a slap in the face for these absolute morons to be portrayed as engineers/scientists.
And Penny going for that squinty eyed idiot? Yea that's believable...well maybe it is, she's no winner either.
What is believable is they are all brilliant government paid hacks waiting for someone else to fix the elevator.
Johansson is perfect for the role. Sometimes she can look a little manish. At times her twin brother looks more feminine than she does.
Clicked on article, & then read article of U of Minnesota’s new transgender sensitivity rules, punishments to include firing and expulsion. Rather intolerant: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/15/university-minnesota-beclowns-proposed-transgender-sensitivity-rules/
Them cracka’s never could fight without losin’ a lotta blood.
Johansen has just begun her odyssey towards conservatism...
There was a lot of complaints about tilda swinton playing the comic-book asian character in “Doctor Strange”.
Normal people are increasingly under attack for being willing to play the roles of LGBT folks.
There were even objections when the transgender Laverne Cox played the transvestite Dr. Frank-n-Furter in the remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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