'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,' Halle Berry wrote.
is issuing an apology after revealing in a recent interview she considered playing a transgender man."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.
"I'm thinking of a character where this woman is transgender," Berry said."She's a woman that transitioned into a man." "I want to experience that world," Berry said of the transgender role."This world, who this woman was, is so interesting to me. And that will probably be my next acting role."
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