Over a year after she exited crime biopic "Rub & Tug", Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has admitted she "mishandled" the casting controversy on the Rupert Sanders film.
The actor's admission, that she was "tone-deaf" to the feelings of the trans community, comes ahead of the Oscars season, where she is expected to get nominated for "Marriage Story" and "Jojo Rabbit".
after her casting -- as the crime kingpin Dante Tex Gill who lived his life as trans man -- sparked backlash amid trans groups and activists.
Johansson admitted in a recent interview that, when it came to her casting as a trans man in the movie Rub & Tug, she didn't handle the public feedback well.
In hindsight, I mishandled that situation. I was not sensitive, my initial reaction to it, Johansson told Vanity Fair.
"I wasn't totally aware of how the trans community felt about those three actors playing and how they felt in general about cis actors playing transgender people.
"I wasn't aware of that conversation I was uneducated. So I learned a lot through that process. I misjudged that... It was a hard time. It was like a whirlwind. I felt terribly about it. To feel like you're kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling," Johansson continued in her response.
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