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Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has admitted that she was “tone-deaf” to criticism in context to playing a transgender character in her film Rub & Tug, saying she mishandled the situation.
In an interview to Vanity Fair, Johansson opened up about the controversy surrounding her decision to play a transgender character and her reaction to it, reports dailymail.co.uk.
“I mishandled that situation,” Johansson said while talking about her since-abandoned role in Rub & Tug.
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“To feel like you’re kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling,” she added.
Johansson was set to play Dante ‘Tex’ Gill, a transgender gangster born as Jean Marie Gill. He ran a prostitution empire in Pittsburgh in the 1970s and 1990s. Rupert Sanders is attached to the project as a director.
The news was met with criticism from the LGBTQ community, specifically among trans actors who have voiced their frustrations over lack of representation of the community in the industry.