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Matt Smith defends straight actors playing gay characters

Matt Smith defends straight actors playing gay characters

Actor Matt Smith has defended straight actors playing gay roles. The star of Doctor Who and The Crown portrays legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a new biopic. “I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence – in either way, positive or negative – what happens, So, to me, […]

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Scarlett Johansson pulls out of controversial ‘Rub & Tug’ role

Scarlett Johansson pulls out of controversial ‘Rub & Tug’ role

Actor Scarlett Johansson has announced she will withdraw from playing a transgender man in the upcoming film Rub & Tug.  The news that Johansson would portray real-life transgender man and underworld figure Dante ‘Tex’ Gill had drawn a backlash from transgender community who argued that transgender actors should be hired to play transgender characters. In an […]

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Scarlett Johannson criticised for taking on transgender role

Scarlett Johannson criticised for taking on transgender role

Actor Scarlett Johansson has been criticised for taking on a transgender role. Johansson has been cast in the upcoming film Rub & Tug where she will play a transgender man. Representatives for the actor however have brushed off the criticism saying “Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps […]

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Review | Rough Night is a hilarious coke fuelled nightmare comedy

Review | Rough Night is a hilarious coke fuelled nightmare comedy

Rough Night | M | Dir: Lucia Aniello | ★ ★ ★  When a group of former fraternity girls find the pressures of adulthood too much they do the only logical thing and blow off all responsibility and head to Miami for a bachelorette weekend. What begins as a 72 hour release valve quickly turns into a […]

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