{"id":4048,"date":"2018-07-08T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2018-07-08T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T06:17:01","slug":"johanssons-latest-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/johanssons-latest-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Johansson&#8217;s Latest Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scarlett Johansson&nbsp;<\/strong>is being attacked after being cast in a transgender role.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Rub &amp; Tug<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;is based on the life of&nbsp;<strong>Jean Marie Gill&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 who was born female but lived life as a man and ran massage parlors and a prostitution ring.&nbsp; Politically correct people claim that Johansson is taking the role away from a transgender actor\u2026because there are so many gifted trans actors at Scarlett\u2019s level of fame.&nbsp; Johansson\u2019s reps said, \u201cTell them they can be directed to&nbsp;<strong>Jeffrey Tambor<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jared Leto<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Felicity Huffman<\/strong>\u2019s reps for comment.\u201d&nbsp; It should be noted that both Jean Marie Gill and Scarlett Johansson were born with vaginas, so I think that gives ScarJo at least a foot in the door (if not a vaj).&nbsp; This is not the first time her casting has been called into question.&nbsp; Last year, she played a character that was based on an anime of a Japanese woman.&nbsp; Not coincidentally, both projects are directed by&nbsp;<strong>Rupert Sanders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When films about LGBT topics started being produced, we applauded celebrated actors taking on the roles and helping to tell our stories.&nbsp; By having a name attached to a project, it ensured the film could be made \u2013 such as&nbsp;<strong>Tom Hanks&nbsp;<\/strong>in&nbsp;<strong><em>Philadelphia<\/em><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Vanessa Redgrave&nbsp;<\/strong>in&nbsp;<strong><em>The Renee Richards Story<\/em><\/strong>, etc.&nbsp; Then the tide turned and people complained that these non-LGBT actors were taking roles away from LGBT actors.&nbsp; However, people also say that gay actors should be able to play any role.&nbsp; But when a gay actor plays a straight character, aren\u2019t they taking a role away from a straight actor?&nbsp; I believe the best actor should get the role \u2013 period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johansson&nbsp;is being attacked after being cast in a transgender role.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rub &amp; Tug&nbsp;is based on the life of&nbsp;Jean Marie Gill&nbsp;\u2013 who was born female but lived life as a man and ran massage parlors and a prostitution ring.&nbsp; Politically correct people claim that Johansson is taking the role away from a transgender actor\u2026because there are<\/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-4048","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\/4048","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=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}