Scarlett Johansson has responded to online criticism after it was announced she would take the role of Dante “Tex” Gill in the forthcoming feature Rub & Tug.
While little is publicly known of the details of Gill’s life, the casting of Johannson has attracted considerable criticism on social media.
Tambor, Leto and Huffman all successfully played trans roles in, respectively, the TV show Transparent, Dallas Buyers Club and Transamerica.
Rub & Tug is due to be directed by Rupert Sanders; he and Johansson previously worked together on Ghost in the Shell, which itself was the focus of considerable controversy for its perceived “whitewashing”.