Trans Actresses Trace Lysette and Jamie Clayton Slam Hollywood After Scarlett Johansson Cast in Transgender Role
Trace Lysette and Jamie Clayton, two of the most high profile transgender actresses working today, took to Twitter in the aftermath of Scarlett Johansson being cast in a transgender role to slam Hollywood for continuing to allow cisgender actors the chance to play transgender characters.
Johansson is set to play Dante “Tex” Gill in Rupert Sanders in crime drama “Rub & Tug.” Gill operated massage parlors that served as fronts for prostitution in 1970s Pittsburgh and lived as a transgender man.“Oh word? So you can continue to play us but we can’t play y’all?” Lysette wrote on Twitter in reaction to Johansson’s casting.
“Hollywood is so fucked.
I wouldn’t be as upset if I was getting in the same rooms as Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett for cis roles, but we know that’s not the case.
A mess.”Lysette is famous for co-starring on Amazon’s comedy series “Transparent.
