Scarlett Johansso has courted criticism over her casting in new film Rub & Tug.
The 33-year-old actress has been cast as a transgender man in the upcoming drama, which is based on the true life story of Jean Marie Gill.
Gill was assigned female at birth, but assumed the identity of a man with the name Dante ‘Tex’ Gill while running a massage parlour and sex work business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1970s and 80s.
It was never confirmed that Gill identified as trans, but in an obituary run by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, according to the Hollywood Reporter, they wrote that Gill wanted to be known… Read the full story