Halle Berry has pulled out of the running to play a transgender character in an upcoming untitled film following a social media backlash.
Over the weekend,during an Instagram Live interview, the Oscar-winning actress said she would "probably" play a transgender man in her next film role. "[The film is about] a character where the woman is a trans character, so she's a woman that transitioned into a man," Berry said in the interview with hairstylist Christin Brown. "She's a character in a project I love that I might be doing." The news was met with a wave of crticism on social media with people highlighting the ongoing problem in Hollywood of a cisgender actor playing a transgender person.
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