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Film Review: Lucy
There was once a time when the term ‘high-concept’ simply meant the kind of film that could be summarised in one sentence. Days of Thunder, for example, is Top Gun with cars, or at least that’s what...
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Scarlett Johansson sparks outrage by playing transgender man in new film
Scarlett Johansson has sparked outrage with an announcement that she is set to play a transgender man in a new film. The Avengers star will reunite with Rupert Sanders, who directed her performance as...
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Transgender actresses rip into Scarlett Johansson for playing trans man
Transgender actresses have hit out at Scarlett Johansson after she defended her decision to play the role of a trans man. The Avengers star will reunite with Rupert Sanders, who directed her...
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Trace Lysette gets death threats after criticising Scarlett Johansson for...
Transgender actress Trace Lysette has received death threats after condemning Scarlett Johansson for playing a trans man in her new film. The Avengers star sparked outrage this week by agreeing to take...
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Business Insider deletes opinion piece defending Scarlett Johansson’s role as...
Financial news website Business Insider has deleted an opinion piece defending Scarlett Johansson for playing a trans man in an upcoming film – a decision that has prompted backlash from trans actors....
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Business Insider issues LGBT sensitivity guidelines after controversial...
Business Insider has put in place new guidelines for opinion pieces exploring “sensitive topics,” after removing an article that defended Scarlett Johansson for accepting a film role as a transgender...
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Trans men post hilarious mock video ‘auditioning’ for Scarlett Johansson roles
Trans actors have created a video of them pretending to audition for a number of Scarlett Johansson’s previous film roles, appearing to mock the star after she controversially accepted a part as a...
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Columnist unrepentant over problematic article defending Scarlett Johansson...
A columnist for Business Insider has quit her job after her column defending Scarlett Johansson playing a transgender man was taken down earlier this week. Daniella Greenbaum publicly resigned from her...
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Scarlett Johansson drops out of Rub and Tug after backlash for taking...
Scarlett Johansson has quit upcoming film Rub & Tug, after anger at her casting as a transgender man. The Avengers star sparked outrage this month by agreeing to take on the role of real-life trans...
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Scarlett Johansson quitting role as transgender man in Rub and Tug has...
Scarlett Johansson stepping down from her role as a transgender man has split opinions across social media. The 33-year-old angered LGBTQ activists when she accepted the role of Dante ‘Tex’ Gill...
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Australian newspaper under fire for Scarlett Johansson ‘tr**ny’ headline
An Australian newspaper is under fire for a headline employing a transphobic slur. Sydney’s Murdoch-owned Sunday Telegraph had carried a report on actress Scarlett Johansson dropping out of a film...
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Scarlett Johansson trans movie may be cancelled after star drops out
The director of trans movie Rub & Tug has suggested that the film could be scrapped altogether after Scarlett Johansson quit the project. Johansson dropped out of the film Rub and Tug on July 13...
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Radio host fired for saying being transgender is like pretending to be a dog
A Canadian radio presenter has been fired after saying that transgender people don’t exist. Dave Wheeler, who hosted 92.1 CITI FM’s Wheeler in the Morning in Winnipeg, Manitoba, wrote on Facebook...
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Supergirl’s transgender superhero says roles like hers show ‘we deserve to...
Nicole Maines, who will play TV’s first transgender superhero on Supergirl, has said that trans actors getting trans roles “shows that we are valid in our identity and we deserve to exist as we do.”...
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Hollywood giants back calls for ‘authentic’ transgender representation after...
A number of major Hollywood companies have backed an effort to ensure genuine transgender representation in Hollywood. An open letter signed by a string of major production companies and talent...
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Glenn Close: Hollywood bosses should ‘go out of their way’ to cast trans actors
Glenn Close, who was once nominated for an Oscar for playing a man, has said that Hollywood needs to start casting transgender actors. The Albert Nobbs star weighed in after a number of projects with...
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Andy Serkis thinks Scarlett Johansson should play trans role
Actor and director Andy Serkis has defended the choice of casting Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender role. The actor, who has made a career out of playing unconventional characters such as Gollum...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson says she ‘should be allowed to play any person’ after...
Scarlett Johansson, who quit her role in Rub & Tug last year after anger at her being cast as a transgender man, says she “should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal.” The...
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Scarlett Johansson says trans role comments were ‘edited for clickbait’
Scarlett Johansson, who quit her role as a transgender man in Rub & Tug last year, has responded to criticism of her recent comments about being allowed to “play any role” by saying that they were...
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Scarlett Johansson admits she ‘mishandled’ backlash after being cast as a...
Scarlett Johansson has admitted she “mishandled” the backlash she received after being cast as a transgender man. The Avengers star had faced a media storm in 2018 after being cast as real-life trans...
View ArticleBilly Eichner won the Oscars with a scorching read of Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson lost out at the Oscars in more ways that one, with Billy Eichner reading her for absolute filth in just five words. Johansson was nominated for both the Best Actress and Best...
View ArticleHalle Berry pulls out of playing transgender man in upcoming film after swift...
Halle Berry has pulled out of a film role in which she’d play a transgender man and issued an apology, following a severe backlash. During an Instagram Live last Friday with hairstylist Christin Brown,...
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Scarlett Johansson to be replaced by a trans actor after controversial Rub &...
Troubled movie project Rub & Tug, which was initially set to star Scarlett Johansson as a transgender man, is to be revived as a TV show with trans creatives and a trans actor playing the lead....
View ArticleLegendary actor Annette Bening emphatically explains once and for all why cis...
Legendary actor Annette Bening has explained in the best possible way why cis actors should never play trans characters. Bening told The Telegraph that having a trans son, Stephen Ira, forced her to...
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RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 to feature Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson and...
For season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, making history is commonplace. From featuring the series’ first trans masculine contestant to it being filmed completely under coronavirus restrictions – now it’s a...
View ArticleMichelle Visage reveals which gay icon has devastatingly turned down Drag...
Michelle Visage has revealed there’s one icon who has turned down requests to guest star on RuPaul’s Drag Race repeatedly. Drag Race boasts an enviable alumni of A-list celebrity guest stars, including...
View ArticleRupert Everett thinks backlash over Scarlett Johansson playing a trans man...
Rupert Everett thinks it was a “mistake of the trans community” to say Scarlett Johansson should not play a trans man in the now-cancelled film Rub & Tug. In an interview on Piers Morgan...
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Six straight actors who were cast in LGBTQ+ roles – but later regretted it
There’s no shortage of straight, cis actors playing LGBTQ+ roles in TV and movies – but some have shared their second thoughts about being cast in queer roles. Even as LGBTQ+ characters become more...
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