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07-05-2018, 04:47 AM
Scarlett Johansson apparently learned nothing from the 'Ghost in the Shell' controversy
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It was a little over a year ago that Scarlett Johansson found herself embroiled in controversy (https://mashable.com/2017/04/03/ghost-in-the-shell-movie-ending/) over Ghost in the Shell, in which she plays a Japanese woman in a white woman's (android) body.
Now she and Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders are catching heat again, for a new project that will have Johansson playing a trans man.*
And if the actress' reaction to the pushback is any indication, Johansson clearly learned nothing from the Ghost in the Shell dustup.
SEE ALSO: Celebrate pride by streaming these queer-as-hell movies and series on Netflix (https://mashable.com/2018/06/04/lgbtq-movies-shows-pride-netflix-streaming/)
On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scarlett-johansson-reteams-ghost-shell-director-true-life-massage-parlor-film-rub-tug-1124582) and other trades broke the news that Johansson would be starring in Rub & Tug as Dante "Tex" Gill, a massage parlor owner in the 1970s and 1980s.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/03/scarlett-johansson-trans-casting-controversy-rub-and-tug/)
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It was a little over a year ago that Scarlett Johansson found herself embroiled in controversy (https://mashable.com/2017/04/03/ghost-in-the-shell-movie-ending/) over Ghost in the Shell, in which she plays a Japanese woman in a white woman's (android) body.
Now she and Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders are catching heat again, for a new project that will have Johansson playing a trans man.*
And if the actress' reaction to the pushback is any indication, Johansson clearly learned nothing from the Ghost in the Shell dustup.
SEE ALSO: Celebrate pride by streaming these queer-as-hell movies and series on Netflix (https://mashable.com/2018/06/04/lgbtq-movies-shows-pride-netflix-streaming/)
On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scarlett-johansson-reteams-ghost-shell-director-true-life-massage-parlor-film-rub-tug-1124582) and other trades broke the news that Johansson would be starring in Rub & Tug as Dante "Tex" Gill, a massage parlor owner in the 1970s and 1980s.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/03/scarlett-johansson-trans-casting-controversy-rub-and-tug/)
More about Scarlett Johansson (https://mashable.com/category/scarlett-johansson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Entertainment (https://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Discrimination (https://mashable.com/category/discrimination/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Movies Tv Shows (https://mashable.com/category/movies-tv-shows/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ywmAgObcCYY