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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 15 July 2019

In a Tuesday, April 23, 2019 file photo, Scarlett Johansson, a
member of the cast of “Avengers: End Game,” appears at a
hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre, in Los
Angeles.
Associated Press This undated photo provided by 4th Row Films shows Fernando Serrano, 23, who plays a striking
Scarlett Johansson: miner in “Bisbee ‘17,” a story of how some 1,200 miners, most of them immigrants, were pulled
violently from their homes in Bisbee, Ariz., by a private police force and put on cattle cars for
Comments on diversity deportation to a desolate area of New Mexico in 1917. Associated Press

were misconstrued Film airing on PBS recalls city’s

dark deportation history
By The Associated Press
Scarlett Johansson says comments she made on the “au- By ANITA SNOW for their deportation. Af- ea’s mining history. Greene
thentic casting” debate have been taken out of context Associated Press ter premiering last year at said he started thinking of
and asserts that she supports diversity in film. BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — The the Sundance Film Festival, ways to make a film about
The actress came under fire in 2017 for playing an Asian darkest, most violent chap- “Bisbee ‘17” will be nation- the Bisbee deportation
character in “Ghost in the Shell” and canceled plans last ter in the history of Bisbee ally broadcast for the first shortly after learning about
year to portray a transgender man in the upcoming film was an open secret for de- time Monday night on the it. As the 100th anniversary
“Rub & Tug,” after transgender actors and advocates cades in the funky old Ari- PBS documentary series approached two years
questioned the casting. zona copper town 7 miles POV. In Arizona, it will be ago, he said, “we knew it
In a recent interview with As If magazine, she said actors (11 kilometers) north of the shown at 9 p.m. was time.” The documen-
should be allowed to play any person “because that is U.S.-Mexico border. It’s the sixth film for director tary tells how the bosses at
my job and the requirement of my job.” But few residents knew the Robert Greene, filmmak- the Phelps Dodge copper
Johansson said Saturday that those comments were sub- details of how about 1,200 er-in-chief for the Murray mining operation feared a
sequently edited in other publications for “clickbait.” miners, most of them im- Center for Documentary strike by miners who sym-
“I personally feel that, in an ideal world, any actor should migrants, were pulled vio- Journalism at the Univer- pathized with the “Wob-
be able to play anybody and Art, in all forms, should be lently from their homes a sity of Missouri. A previous blies,” members of the radi-
immune to political correctness,” she said in a statement. century ago by a private film “Kate Plays Christine” cal Industrial Workers of the
“I recognize that in reality, there is a wide spread discrep- police force and put on won a Jury Award for Writ- World.
ancy amongst my industry that favors Caucasian, cisgen- cattle cars for their depor- ing at Sundance 2016. The U.S. had just entered
der actors and that not every actor has been given the tation to a desolate area of “Owning The Weather,” World War I, and company
same opportunities that I have been privileged to.”q
New Mexico. his first documentary, was executives worried that for-
The filming of “Bisbee ‘17,” screened at the COP15 Cli- eign-born miners would try
Barbie goes glam rock to honor a documentary about mate Change Conference to hamper the war effort.
Working with mining boss-
what happened July 12, in Copenhagen.
David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust 1917, was a history lesson Greene said he learned of es, the local sheriff hast-
for residents recruited to the town of Bisbee around ily deputized about 2,000
“Space Oddity,” Barbie play historical figures in the 15 years ago when he first strikebreakers to round up
overseers at Mattel re- production filmed exactly visited southeastern Arizo- about 1,200 miners, mostly
leased a collectible version 100 years later that weds na to help his then-future immigrants from Mexico
of the doll dressed as Ziggy documentary and collec- mother-in-law fix up an and eastern Europe. They
Stardust, one of his most tive performance. It is, at old cabin. “I completely were led by gunpoint to
beloved alter egos. turns, a Western, a musical fell in love with the town,” the baseball field in the
Barbie wears the metal- and a ghost story. Greene said of the quirky nearby community of War-
lic Ziggy space suit with The film mixes the town’s community of old hippies, ren, locked inside train cars
red and blue stripes, flared past and present, the immigrants, biker mechan- and shipped off to Herma-
shoulders and cherry red residents dressed in pe- ics and descendants of nas, New Mexico.
platform boots. Mattel riod clothing but mov- miners and company ex- The narrative emerges
This image released by Mattel
shows a Ziggy Stardust Barbie, spared no makeup, featur- ing through present-day ecutives. The town today through the residents’ per-
honoring the 50th anniversary ing the astral sphere smack Bisbee. Newly deputized leans to the political left sonal stories: a woman
of the release of David Bowie s in the middle of Ziggy Bar- strikebreakers with ancient and has an active cultural whose grandfather de-
iconic “Space Oddity.” bie’s forehead. The doll’s guns stand in a classroom scene that includes live ported his brother; a former
Associated Press hair is fiery red. complete with an over- theatre. It features Victori- mining company boss who
NEW YORK (AP) — Bar- The $50, limited edition doll head projector and mod- an-style houses built on hilly remains convinced the
bie has been many things was created in collabora- ern light figures. “Enjoy the terrain, along with other ar- deportation was justified;
over the years. Now, she’s tion with The David Bowie AC while you’ve got it!” a chitectural gems. The gap- and Fernando Serrano, 23,
dressed as Ziggy Stardust. Archive. man standing at the front ing hole at Bisbee’s edge whose mother had been
In celebration of the 50th The beloved rocker died in of a modern bus tells resi- that was once the Laven- deported back to her na-
anniversary of the release 2016 after battling cancer. dents dressed as miners as der Pit copper mine is a tive Mexico and jailed on
of David Bowie’s iconic He was 69.q they travel to the rail cars constant reminder the ar- drug charges.q