You're listening to Comedy Central.

And if you saw the story where,

Scarlett Johansson, as you know, has a record of coming under fire

for playing roles that people have said could go to other minority groups.

So for instance, she played what was considered a Japanese character

in a movie like an action movie. I forgive the name of the movie.

It was Ghost on the Shell. It was Ghost on the Shell, yeah.

And then she wanted to play a trans character in another movie.

And people were like, hey, come on. What about trans actors?

Can they get a shot at this? And she had a statement at the time

which wasn't great. She was like, oh, why don't you go talk to other people's agents

who've done it before me. It was like a very dismissive thing.

And she apologized after that. And now she came back for another statement

where she said something along the lines of, as an actress,

I should be allowed to play whatever role I want.

A tree, an animal, whatever. Like, people shouldn't be restricting me

and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, it's so interesting.

I understand why you may want to get defensive as a person.

I can even understand why some white people may feel like they're under attack

in and around these conversations.

But I think what's often lost is you see when Scolott goes,

I should be allowed to play an animal or a tree or anything.

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