Scarlett Johansson Caught Up in New Casting Controversy Over Transgender Role

Scarlett Johansson is once again at the center of what is shaping up to be another casting controversy.Re-teaming with her Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders, Johansson is set to star in a feature called Rub & Tug, about the true-life story of Jean Marie Gill, who was assigned female at birth but who assumed the identity of a man, Dante “Tex” Gill, and operated a massage parlor and prostitution business in Pittsburgh in the 1970s and ’80s.While it’s unclear how Gill identified, an obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted that Gill “wanted to …

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