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next up here, actor scarlet johansson getting backlash for an upcoming movie to play a late pittsburgher. the movie title "rub and tug" based on a true problem. the title character was a transgender man. in addition to that, the director, she is working with, rupert sanders, someone she's gotten criticism for working with in the past. sar sarah sidener with me to explain. do they wish it's a transgender person instead playing the role? >> yeah. i think the issue here really is not just optics but economics. you have a transgender actors who are highly underrepresented as you well know in hollywood film. there are rarely roles that are based on transgender people. and here there's an opportunity for someone who is transgender to actually go for this role and here scarlet johansson gets it. to be fair, there's an economic part on both sides. both on the filmmaker side and on the actor side for transgender people not being able to get roles. any kind of roles and then having this kind of taken away. but there's also hollywood's business. right? it is a business. and when an a-lister is at

scarlett johansson is making headlines for a film role she just stepped away from, coming amid a focus on the lack of representation for transgender actors. steve patterson has the story. >> reporter: it's a hollywood casting coup. this week scarlett johansson stepping out of her role as a transgender man after a broad backlash from industry activists. scarjo initially fighting her critics, then saying that she decided to withdraw her participation in the project. >> it's one of those audiences where audiences are no longer allowing things like this to happen anymore. >> reporter: the film "rub & tug," which hadn't even started production, is a take on real life late '70s pump dante gill, who was born a woman. >> i have something to tell you. >> reporter: the controversy in response to a trend. >> do you like this dress? cisgender actors portraying transgender characters in an industry where trans reen microscopic. >> broadly feeling we feel as if transgender men aren't real men, we feel transgender women aren't real women. i think we're starting to see a change in the industry. >> rep

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royalcarlett johansson making headlines tonight for ail role she just stepped away from.k lashg com amid focus of lack of representation for transgender actors. >> reporter: it's a hollywoodin castg coup, scarlett johansson stepping into a role. she initially fighting hers critnd releasing a statement sayini have decided to withdraw. >> it is a moment where are audiences are no longer allowing something like this to happ >> the film ia take of the real life of late 70s pittsburgh pimp who was born a woman. >> i have something to tell you. >> reporter: the controversy in response to a trend. >> do you like this dress. >> reporter: of award winning roles portraying transgender characters in an industry where trender representation is microscopic. we feel as if transgender men aren't real men. we are beginning to see a change in the industry. >> reporter: miles josefson says early roles is an uphill battle. >> it is extremely frustrating. >> reporter: he hopes this moment is ang point. >> i think it changed a couple of people's minds. itot the conversation going. it's all ab

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johansson was set to play a transgendered man but people were upset about that.ut jeffrey tambor and felicity huffman have also played transgendered artists, but johansson says she wants to be sensitive. she's learned a lot from this experience, and she doesn't want to -- >> there was controversy around both of those other roles, too. >> yes, there were, there were, and it's because transgendered artists want to be able to have more roles. >> fair enough. >> all right, and so we have one last thing. finally, ladies and gentlemen, dunkin' donuts is giving coffee lovers a new way to enjoy their brew. dunkin' donuts and harpoon brewery have teamed up to release, what, a new beer. called dunkin' donuts coffee porter. >> yes! >> just in time for dark beer season in the fall, it will be brewed with dunkin' donuts coffee, have a 6% alcohol content by volume if you're interested in that kind of thing and now we present to you coffee with a kick. i cannot tell you where to get this because they haven't released it yet, but we will do this, i'm sure, on a future "pop news.

she wrote a piece defending scarlett johansson, she had she is an actor, she should be allowed to ask the piece, and she resigned in protest. it is kind of an amazing story. i hope i'm not mischaracterizing it, she said this is an actress who is paid to portray other people. this is what she seeks to do. was that your argument basically? >> yes, i thought it was totally benign. actors are paid to represent people who aren't themselves. that is what she has been hired to do, and i don't understand the average frankly. >> tucker: well, it sort of an unimpeachable point. how did business insider, your editor over there, how did he respond, what did he say to you? >> well, nick is the editor in chief over there, and maybe three, four, five hours ago after the piece went up, i got on a call with him and some of the other senior staff there, and they informed me that many of my colleagues had written letters very upset at the point i had made and how i had made i it. and ultimately, they decided to take the piecehe down. >> tucker: what were they upset about? i mean,ga did they have a case

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.>>> scarlett johansson is dropping out of a film following backlash from the lgbt community.te text gil. he was born a woman but identified as a man. the lgbt community criticized her hansen saying the role should want to a transgender actor. she announced that her decision was for ethical reasons raised surrounding her casting.>>> the san francisco municipal transportation agencylock. fans of the show will house and polar house keep visiting this home on brodrick street. neighbors complained that it is constantly swarmed. the fans make noise, block the roads and double park. the plan is to prohibit tour buses and commercial vehicles from going to the block. it is similar to the painted ladies seen during their picnic . >> i am worried that someone will get killed. the torstar in the street taking pictures. people were driving are looking at the house and not at the street. >> some neighbors have posted signs reminding visitors to keep the noise level downs.>>> resident chuck continues his visit with a little downtime in scotland. we will have the latest on what is expected t

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a social media mom found it offensive that scarlett >> social media mom found that t offensive, johanssony a transgender man in a forthcoming film and when a writer tried to defend her she paid for too. she is backing out of trans role after outcry from lgbt activists who complain she was stealing work from actual trans actors. he had been public support for keeping the role but a writer for business insider argued actors specialize in make-believe it should be taking any job they like. danielle says she is resigned from her blog after several people in the organization complained to the editor who responded by scrubbing the post from the site and instituting a new policy of requiring culturally sensitive work to be reviewed. robert down junior's blackface role in tropic thunder, white man playing a black actor generated no backlash for downey according to a reuters report in 2008. time for night court, looking into a case involving national jim chain planet fitness, liberty counsel says it's client is a woman known as mrs. h confronted a transgender person in the locker room of the gym i

new york times" opinion pages, on july 7th -- or sixth, rather, they posted a story, "why scarlett johanssonay a trans man."oh she was about to play transgendered man in a movie. now the argument was, you can't have someone who is not transgendered playing a transgendered character.re so why is it okay to have two straight men in what is i essentially a gay romantic comedy? a lot of people are pushing back including lgbt activists and i think you have a tweet there from a rather prominent writer. >> laura: here is -- we have a tweet by -- this is funny. i have to put this together. we have a tweet by -- a t sound bite by arnold schwarzenegger. should we play that now? >> no, it's mike drucker's tweet. i don't have it in front of me. >> laura: here it is. it says "congrats to everyone doing gay jokes about trump and putin, throwing your own beliefs under the bus for a political cartoon they will never see." [laughs] >> people are very upset about this in the gay community, and rightfully so. they are making light of their lifestyle. in addition to those, if you are the president, and you know

. >>> new reaction this morning about actress scarlet johansson playing a transgender man in. >> somepportunities from transformers. those identified as the gender assign the at birth are. >> i never found anybody looking like me portrayed on screen. i guess i would say it's important right now to speak out and push back. >> and in recent years transgender performancing are given award-winning insiders say hollywood it in a moment talking about proper representation. >> the city of berkeley is inviting you the movie in the park. the it kicks off with willie wonka and the chocolate factory. starting at 8:45 at strawberry creek park. other moves. mulan. my favorite padding ton 2. cocoa, lion king within autobiography kubo and the two strings which i haven't seen. >> it's great. and a lot of beautiful disney films in that being the parent company of abc 7. >> i'm a fan. >> i like it. >> we appreciate that and comfortable starting off with 70s and mid-60s during it. >> perfect. >> maybe a little bit of a blanket. and enjoy it. all right. 6:17. and lag at some beautiful pictures out there

for example, actress scarlet johansson was supposed to play transgender person but had to quit the rolectivist attacked her for not giving that role to someone transgendered. daniel greenbaum is a writer and until a few days ago she worked at "business insider" and she wrote a piece to defend scarlet for taking the role. but under pressure from the activists they deleted the piece and she resigned. and she joins us tonight. this is an amazing story. give us the quick outline. your piece basically, i hope i'm not mischaracterized this saying this is an actress who is acting to portray other people, and nothing wrong with that. >> i thought i wrote something benign and i said actors are paid to represent people who are not themselves. that is what she has been hired to do. i don't understand the outrage frankly. >> tucker: this is an unimpeachable point. how did business insider -- nicholas carlson was the editor i think -- what did he say to you? >> nick is the editor in chief. he said maybe three or four or five hours after the piece went up on friday morning i got on a call with him an

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. >>> "entertainment weekly" reports actress scarlett johansson has pulled out the film rub and tug. it follow as firestorm over her being cast as the film's transgender male lead. in a statement she said while she would have loved to bring dante's story and transition to life, she understands why many feel he should be portrayed by a transgender person. she initially knocked down the controversy by pointing to three actors who won awords for playing transgender characters. >>> and the atlanta "journal-constitution" reports two police officers in roswell, georgia, are on paid administrative leave for using a coin toss to determine how to respond to a suspected speeder. body camera footage reveals heads would be to arrest the woman allegedly driving 88 mile an hour, tails would mean giving her a ticket. the officers wound up arrests the woman anyway. their police chief is appalled any officer would trivialize the important decision-making process of making an arrest. >> use of discretion. >> yeah. it's kind of a disturbing decision-making process to say the least. >>> it's about 21 mi

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