Halle Berry, known for her roles in the movie Catwoman, recurring role as thunder-wielding Storm in the X-men series and the Mission Impossible movie, has said that she has officially given up on the idea of playing a transgender man in her next return to the cinema.
She has announced this on Twitter on Monday, with a resigned air about her as there has been inundation of social media and critics’ backlashes over her idea of ‘playing and taking away from the LGBT+Q’ community during the course of weeks after news spread that she was possibly considering the potential role.
Berry also previously apologized on the controversy during the weekends also in an Instagram Live video that she’d broadcast to her fans.
“As a cisgender woman, I now understand that I should not have considered this role, and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories,” she wrote on Twitter in the official announcement: “I am grateful for the guidance and critical conversation over the past few days and I will continue to listen, educate and learn from this mistake.
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She also promised all those who have taken interest in the issue that she intends “to be an ally” and to use her “voice to promote better representation on-screen, both in front of and behind the camera.”
The response over the issue has been overwhelmingly positive.
LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD said that they were very happy, and that the actress has acquired the sight of view needed to understand less representation in popular media, and that she hopefully “learned from them.” “Other powerful people should do the same,” the group said in response on Twitter.
“A good place to start is by watching @Disclosure_Doc to learn about trans representation in media.”
The said documentary has been produced by the transgender actress Laverne Cox of “Orange is the New Black.”
The Twitter account of the documentary has reached out so far to say to the actress: “first to understand how cis actors like yourself acting in trans roles has major cultural consequences offscreen. We hope #DisclosureNetflix is one of many educational tools you and others can rely to inspire and strengthen allyship.”
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