Scarlett Johansson is again controversial with one of his roles

Last year, Scarlett Johansson played an Asian character in Ghost in the Shell and received countless critics. This year, it once again attracts the animosity of part of the public by accepting a role of transgender man.

For his live adaptation of the animated film Ghost in the Shell the American director Rupert Sanders (you know, the one with whom Kristen Stewart had deceived Robert Pattinson) had the astonishing idea to recruit Scarlett Johansson for the lead role. Economically speaking, the choice was good: an international headliner, it always helps for promotion and distribution. But from an ethical point of view, it was a little more complicated than that: by offering a western actress a role of Japanese woman, the director was accused of whitewashing this annoying tendency that have some studios to use white stars for roles supposedly attributed to people of color. The films Gods of Egypt and The Great Wall had been pinned the same way a little earlier, but that did not stop Scarlett Johansson from becoming the heroine of Ghost on the shell provoking a lively controversy.

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Clearly, critics have not touched the actress, nor her director. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Scarlett Johansson and Rupert Sanders would once again be working together on Rub & Tug, a film based on the true story of Dante "Tex" Gill, a godfather of prostitution in Pittsburgh. the 1970s. The role of this transgender man, born into a girl badigned body, was awarded to Scarlett Johansson. Unsurprisingly, many LGBTQI activists have expressed their anger at this choice of actress and recalled that it was quite possible to recruit a real transgender.

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The controversy has swelled on social networks, the American star sent a brief statement to Bustle to respond to criticism: " Tell them they can contact the agents Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto and Felicity Huffman if they want a comment. Felicity Huffman, who had played a transgender woman in the movie Transamerica, had already done so in 2014, stating that in retrospect she thought that a " transgender person should play a transgender person . " She clearly does not have the same vision of things as Scarlett Johansson