Halle Berry has turned down the opportunity to play a transgender man in forthcoming film after facing an online backlash.
“[It’s] a character where the woman is a trans character, so she’s a woman that transitioned into a man,” said Berry.
Scarlett Johansson was cast to play the lead role of a transgender man in Rub & Tug in 2018, but she exited the film one week later after a backlash.
The Catwoman star was criticised after revealing in an Instagram live interview on Friday (3 July) that she had been preparing for the mysterious role.