{"id":10617,"date":"2020-07-12T22:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2020-07-12T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:51:40","slug":"halle-changes-her-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/halle-changes-her-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Changes Her Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Halle<\/strong> <strong>Berry<\/strong> really stepped in it this week.&nbsp; It started, as so many good scandals do, during an <em>Instagram<\/em> chat with her hairdresser!&nbsp; When talking about upcoming projects, Halle said, \u201cI\u2019m thinking of a character where the woman is a trans character, so she\u2019s a woman that transitioned into a man.&nbsp; She\u2019s a character in a project I love that I might be doing.&nbsp; The project got pitched to me right when I was on the brink of making <strong><em>Bruised<\/em><\/strong>, but I so was in the mindset of getting in the body to play that, and I don\u2019t know how long I can play an MMA character, so I had to get that out\u2026but this got pitched to me, and I thought after I do this movie, that\u2019s the character I\u2019m going to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all hell broke loose \u2013 because only a trans person can play a trans character, and only a gay person can play a gay character, and only a straight person can play a straight character, right?&nbsp; What?&nbsp; Oh, you mean gay people want to play straight roles?&nbsp; And trans people would like to also play non-trans roles?&nbsp; Sorry \u2013 everyone must stick to their lane.&nbsp; Anyway, Halle pulled out of the project.&nbsp; \u201cOver the weekend I had the opportunity to discuss my consideration of an upcoming role as a transgender man, and I\u2019d like to apologize for those remarks.&nbsp; As a cisgender woman, I now understand that I should not have considered this role, and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories.\u201d&nbsp; And life goes on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halle Berry really stepped in it this week.&nbsp; It started, as so many good scandals do, during an Instagram chat with her hairdresser!&nbsp; When talking about upcoming projects, Halle said, \u201cI\u2019m thinking of a character where the woman is a trans character, so she\u2019s a woman that transitioned into a man.&nbsp; She\u2019s a character in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10626,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}