TIL Desk Hollywood/ Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has dropped out of a role in which she was going to play a transgender man following a backlash from the LGBT community. The actor exited the drama film “Rub and Tug” a little more than a week after her casting sparked backlash amid trans groups and activists.
“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. 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 realise it was insensitive.
“I have great admiration and love for the trans community and am grateful that the conversation regarding inclusivity in Hollywood continues. According to GLAAD, LGBTQ+ characters dropped 40 per cent in 2017 from the previous year, with no representation of trans characters in any major studio release,” Johansson told in a statement.
