Lauded actress Glenn Close received the most recent of her six Oscar nominations in 2011, for portraying a woman who presents herself as a man in order to advance through 19th century Irish society. While she and her “Albert Nobbs” colleagues maintain that character was not transgender, during an appearance on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s podcast to promote “The Wife,” Close said she “understood the frustration” surrounding Scarlett Johansson’s short-lived recent casting as a transgender man.
“My thinking right now is that people who are producing and directing properties like that need to go out of their way to get trans actors jobs… but they also should have the opportunity to cast the best person,” Close told reporter Diederik van Hoogstraten on “The HFPA in Conversation.” “Acting is a craft… I think personally that anyone should be able to play anyone.”
On July 2, Deadline reported that Johansson would...
“My thinking right now is that people who are producing and directing properties like that need to go out of their way to get trans actors jobs… but they also should have the opportunity to cast the best person,” Close told reporter Diederik van Hoogstraten on “The HFPA in Conversation.” “Acting is a craft… I think personally that anyone should be able to play anyone.”
On July 2, Deadline reported that Johansson would...
- 8/15/2018
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