Tag: Transgender representation
Should cis actors like Scarlett Johansson be allowed to play trans roles?
Actress Scarlett Johansson has drawn ire in the past for playing a whitewashed role in the film adaptation of the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell and being cast as a trans man in a never-produced historical film, Hug and Tug, a role she later declined after backlash from the trans community.
But in a new interview with As If magazine, Johansson said she feels she should “be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal,” a...
