Trans men audition for Johansson’s role in video

TRANS TEEN TO STAR IN INDIE HORROR

Los Angeles: A group of trans men have teamed up to star in a parody video which features them mock- auditioning for cisgender roles that actor Scarlett Johansson played in her career. The parody video comes in response to the controversial casting of Johansson as a trans man in the upcoming film Rub & Tug, which will be directed by Rupert Sanders.

It has been produced by queer online magazine INTO and features trans actors, D’Lo, Justin Chow, Scott Turner Schofield and Rocco Kayiatos stepping into Johansson’s roles of Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow from The Avengers and Anna in He’s Just Not That Into You. In the end, an offscreen casting director offers Schofield the role of Samantha in 2013’ s Her, but he turns it down. “I’m just having a lot of trouble because cis women are really marginalised,” says Schofield. Portland, Maine: A transgender former middle school student who fought to use the bathroom of her choice in Maine is preparing for her big screen debut.

Nicole Maines is starring in the indie horror film Bit as a transgender teen trying to co- exist with and understand a group of feminist vampires in Los Angeles.

Maines has been attending the University of Maine but her father tells the Portland Press Herald that she’s leaving to focus on acting. The 20- year- old made her TV acting debut three years ago in the USA Network series Royal Pains. She’s also appeared in documentaries as herself.