After criticism, the American actress Halle Berry withdraws from a film project in which she would perform the role of a transman. She had only announced that role on Friday.
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“As a cisgender woman, I now understand that I shouldn’t be eligible for this role and that the transgender community should be given the opportunity to tell their own stories,” said actress Halle Berry on her Twitter account.
On Friday, she had announced in an interview with her hairdresser that she was considering a role as a trans man in an unnamed film. “It is a woman who transforms into a man. She is a character I love, “Berry explained. The fact that the actress talked about a ‘woman’ and used the pronoun ‘she’ raised a lot of criticism on social media.
On Monday, Berry posted mea culpa on Twitter. “I apologize for those comments.” She decided to immediately leave the project. The transgender community responded positively to that decision.
In 2018, the American actress Scarlett Johansson also stepped out of a biographical film about transman Dante ‘Tex’ Gill after a similar protest from transgender activists.
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