The Italian-language version of Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller Promising Young Woman has come under fire for giving trans actor Laverne Cox a male voice. “I think this dubbing choice was a straight-up act of violence,” Italian trans actor and voice actor Vittoria Schisano tells the Guardian. Schisano says she doesn’t know any other trans voice actors in Italy and wasn’t even asked to read for Cox’s role in Promising Young Woman. In Spain and Germany, a cis man was cast to voice Cox in Promising Young Woman. “We’ve never had black voice actors – not because we didn’t want them, but because there aren’t any who have specialised in voice acting,” Giuliani says.

Source: The Guardian May 12, 2021 09:00 UTC