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Scarlett Johansson Says She Has the Right to Portray ‘Any Person’ She Wants
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Downey's character in Tropic Thunder is still a white character who's treated with nothing but contempt by everyone else for his decision to take the role. It's self-aware and lampooning the sort of ill-conceived transformative performance we saw w/ Johannsson attempting to take the lead role in a Dante Gill movie despite being completely wrong for the part on every conceivable level. It was a part where having an open gendered casting might be warranted because of the degree of difficulty finding someone who can pull off the part physically, but that hypothetical person is not going to be someone with the build of Scarlet Johannsson.
If I had to guess she probbably made because she knows and wants those roles for award cred. Cause award shows love that bullshit.
Everyone can get some, espeically the writers who decided "LOL JK, She was really asian all along"
This doesn't mean a white woman doing yellowface is suddenly acceptable.
This is why I never was a ScarJo fan. She is lucky she still has that Black Widow movie because FiTS and Rough Night bombed hard.
Why do people always skip that, the movie wasn't subtle about it all.
I hear the same talking points when white people say that they should be able to say the N word too.
Pretty much. I suspect they would've gave it to another white person anyway but there's always that chance. There's a great deal of white fragility in her comments though.
She's gonna get dog piled while Hollywood being a trash business gets completely overlooked.
Hope how you like white over tanned Egyptians!
The story is about an asian brain in a robot body, no?
Not defending the movie's choices, but simply saying she was in yellowface in Ghost in the Shell is pretty disingenous.
Damn ScarJo. I get the idea, but this just sounds and is one of the most privileged things you could say. Sure it would be nice for you to play whoever you wanted, but there are people of minorities that cant even play themselves in a movie about them.
I'm sure someone could make an argument about being rich as hell and exercising personal restraint, but I'm there with you. This is a recurring problem because studios have their heads up their asses and don't see PoC leads as bankable.
Why is this clip funnier out of context? 🤣
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so it's ok if it's satire? so if the movie was about movies and scarjo is playing and actress playing a trans, people would be ok with it?
i mean i went to art school, and if my teachers started saying you shouldn't do this or that because people will take it the wrong way, id be irritated too
Well no, it isn't.
But at the end of the movie it's revealed she was Asian all along, her original body was changed because reasons. In the words of Double Toasted, they just didn't just whitefaced Motoko, they white-bodied her lol. And I remember, before release, they were acting like this twist was something so great that was going to elevate the movie and justify Johansson being cast in the movie.
Funny how a lot of folks "togetherness" involves fucking over marginalized people.
Who's overlooking Hollywood being trash?
And Scarlett isn't some unknown desperate for a break in the business. She's an A-lister with plenty of roles to choose from.
Some of you need to stop acting like it's unfair that she's getting critism, especually when this is her response to it.
On the other hand, Tom Hanks played a gay man with AIDS in the film Philadelphia, and Jared Leto played an HIV+ trans-woman in the film Dallas Buyers Club. Both actors won Academy awards for their performances.
Hilary Swank played a transgender man in the film Boys Don't Cry and won an Academy award for her performance.
Hilary Swank played a transgender man in the film Boys Don't Cry and won an Academy award for her performance.
It works in the movie because RDJ is playing a white douchey actor playing a black man. The joke is always on Downey's character and the absurd myopic ego it takes to think that's a good idea. Tropic Thunder is a movie making fun of movie-making and Hollywood.
If RDJ had played the role of a black guy unironically in the same manner as in Tropic Thunder there would have been mass outcry, and for a very good reason.
Also, The Crying Game.
I don't know what you mean by "on the other hand", though. Are you referring to the OP?
I can't believe you're having to explain this. It's plain as day in the film.
yeh i get that, so if that trans movie was a hollywood satire would people care then?
and i remember the trans community being all up in arms about hilary swank too, cant please everyone i guess
To be fair what movie has she led that actually did well in recent times
New hero of the alt-right! Finally they can stop making videos slamming Brie Larson and instead praise ScarJo!
she got a job offer and accepted. lets blame the people casting not the actress.
she is pretty much the female lead in the avenger/mcumovies she is in.
The criticisms are completely fair.
She's not offering herself these roles and I don't think her turning it down automatically means an Asian woman gets the part. This reminds me of places where I have worked that have said, "WE NEED MORE DIVERSITY GUYS" and it's like all white people for the most part. Well, then hire more non-white people?
Like I said, Disney has it right. They are, from jump offering roles to performers with inclusion in mind. There was no point in time where I think an Asian woman was considered for this part.
She shouldn't even have the choice, no white person should have it because when minorities get passed on these roles I don't think they ever had a say.
I don't get how me putting this on the casting agencies that are notoriously racist and ran by white people is defending her (famous people are whatever, I don't expect them to be good). She's wrong to accept but I'm not gonna fault her for getting offers when we know why she's getting them in the first place.
Tropic Thunder needs to leave some of ya'll vocabulary because you obviously didn't get it. At all.
People are gonna cape, as always. But lets stop with the utterly stupid when we're talking about her own statements.
People are gonna cape, as always. But lets stop with the utterly stupid when we're talking about her own statements.
so if someone comes to you and asks you to do something you love (in her case acting) and offers a bunch of money you are going to reject?
honestly this is a problem of studio heads not of the individual actress.
That language tho.
I've been here for a minute sis, I can read those whistles.
It was her big break! No one knew her before Ghost in the Shell, that well attended film and critical darling
