PDS 7.15 Scarlett Johansson CONTROVERSY, Shane Dawson's Return, & Trump's "Go Back" Backlash
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sop ya beautiful bastards, hope you have a fantastic Monday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show, |
| 0:05.0 | and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today is why we had |
| 0:08.3 | Scarlett Johansson in the news. So in a recent interview with As If Magazine, Scarlett |
| 0:11.8 | Johansson was quoted saying that she should, quote, be allowed to play any person or any tree |
| 0:16.2 | or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job. And that quote reignited a debate on social media about diversity and casting. A controversy that Johansen has actually found herself in multiple times. As you might remember, she was previously criticized for accepting the role of a transgender man in the film Rubbentuck, where she ended up stepping down from the role last summer amid calls for the character to be actually played by a trans actor instead. Before that, Johansen had faced backlash |
| 0:37.5 | for playing a Japanese character and ghost in the shell, |
| 0:39.6 | which critics again argued should have been played |
| 0:41.3 | by a Japanese actor. |
| 0:42.3 | And so with this new quote out there, |
| 0:43.5 | you got a lot of people angry again. |
| 0:45.0 | Just a few examples. |
| 0:46.0 | Last year, Scarjo was the highest paid female actor |
| 0:48.2 | in Hollywood making 40.5 million. |
| 0:50.4 | The fact that she still feels she deserves |
| 0:52.0 | to take up space and jobs away from trans slash people of color actors is a microcosm of how people still don't really understand how |
| 0:58.0 | Allyship works. Another writing yes Scarjo you should be able to play a tree because there aren't countless sentient trees desiring to act yet struggling to get cast in roles |
| 1:05.6 | But there are ton of LGBTQIAI non-binary actors who have vocalized that they would love to represent those characters. |
| 1:12.6 | Others saying that she has learned nothing. But still of course at the same time there were those that defended Scarjo. |
| 1:17.6 | Examples like Scarlett Johansson said she wants to play any role she wants, you know, like actors do, and that Ariel. This week, Scarjo wants to play someone else, cancel. |
| 1:28.6 | You guys are funny. |
| 1:29.5 | And others arguing acting as an art involves the embodiment of another person thing, etc. |
| 1:34.0 | Any and all artists have the right to expand their horizons. |
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