{"id":71755,"date":"2019-07-16T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71755"},"modified":"2019-07-13T18:08:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T23:08:47","slug":"and-the-social-media-lynching-will-begin-in-5-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71755","title":{"rendered":"And The Social Media Lynching Will Begin In 5&#8230;4&#8230;3&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scarlett Johannson lashing back, in her own way, at the PC police&#8217;s affect on acting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>She addressed was she called the &#8216;political correctness&#8217; in casting without directly mentioning her controversial casting in Rub &amp; Tug.\u00a0<br>&#8216;You know, as an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job,&#8217; she said point blank.<br>She continued: &#8216;I feel like it\u2019s a trend in my business and it needs to happen for various social reasons, yet there are times it does get uncomfortable when it affects the art because I feel art should be free of restrictions.&#8217;\u00a0<br>&#8216;I\u00a0think society would be more connected if we just allowed others to have their own feelings and not expect everyone to feel the way we do.&#8217;<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Between that and supporting Israel, she&#8217;s never gonna do lunch at Spago again.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you know what?    The interview was in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-7242081\/Scarlett-Johansson-opens-politically-correct-casting-retro-spread-If.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb\">a very style-y retro photo shoot for a magazine<\/a>.  I&#8217;m gonna focus on that, if that&#8217;s OK.  Thanks.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johannson lashing back, in her own way, at the PC police&#8217;s affect on acting: She addressed was she called the &#8216;political correctness&#8217; in casting without directly mentioning her controversial casting in Rub &amp; Tug.\u00a0&#8216;You know, as an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71756,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71755\/revisions\/71756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}