https://variety.com/2018/film/news/scarlett-johansson-exit-rub-and-tug-trans-backlash-1202872981/
Fair enough from her perspective, the media have turned her into some evil nazi type for daring to take on this role and she has her image to worry about, the backlash threatens future projects she could be involved and in turn potentially threatened her market value. She already had some flack re: whitewashing with ghost in the shell - even though she was playing the shell FFS.
I suspect a decade ago she'd be described as 'brave' and applauded for getting involved in a movie that tells the story of a trans-man but with today's promotion of identity politics it seemingly "triggered" some people.
I do wonder what they're going to do now - perhaps they can persuade another female actor to take the role. Failing that they've got a very small pool of people to chose from and a lot more risk for the project. IT doesn't make clear where they start the story off either - I mean at some point in the 70s this person was a woman and then started undergoing transition into a man... if you cast a modern trans man most of them are already going to look quite masculine from the start.
Will be interesting to see what happens - whether they get an actual trans person to play the role or whether another actress is prepared to face the backlash.
Fair enough from her perspective, the media have turned her into some evil nazi type for daring to take on this role and she has her image to worry about, the backlash threatens future projects she could be involved and in turn potentially threatened her market value. She already had some flack re: whitewashing with ghost in the shell - even though she was playing the shell FFS.
I suspect a decade ago she'd be described as 'brave' and applauded for getting involved in a movie that tells the story of a trans-man but with today's promotion of identity politics it seemingly "triggered" some people.
I do wonder what they're going to do now - perhaps they can persuade another female actor to take the role. Failing that they've got a very small pool of people to chose from and a lot more risk for the project. IT doesn't make clear where they start the story off either - I mean at some point in the 70s this person was a woman and then started undergoing transition into a man... if you cast a modern trans man most of them are already going to look quite masculine from the start.
Will be interesting to see what happens - whether they get an actual trans person to play the role or whether another actress is prepared to face the backlash.
Pretty weird looking in that pic to be fair.
