With her upcoming Netflix film, “Marriage Story,” already generating Oscar buzz, Scarlett Johansson is taking the promotional circuit plunge with Vanity Fair’s December cover story. Inside, she addresses past controversies including her initial response to backlash over her being cast as a trans man, a part many thought should have gone to a trans actor, and her defense of Woody Allen. “I’m not a politician, and I can’t lie about the way I feel about things. I don’t have that. It’s just not a part of my personality,” said Scarlett, who ultimately stepped away from the lead in “Rub & Tug.” “I don’t have that I don’t want to have to edit myself, or temper what I think or say. I can’t live that way,” she added. “In hindsight, I mishandled that situation,” she acknowledged. “I was not sensitive, my initial reaction to it. I wasn’t totally aware of how the trans community felt about those three actors playing — and how they felt in general about cis actors playing — transgender people. I wasn’t aware of that conversation — I was uneducated.” As for her work with and support of Woody Allen, Scarlett admitted that while she knows there can be a backlash when she says what she honestly thinks, she believes it’s “dangerous to temper how you represent yourself” just because “you’re afraid” of “the response.” Scarlett and Adam Driver’s already acclaimed divorce film, “Marriage Story,” hits Netflix Dec. 6.
