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Disabled Performers Advocate for Allies in Hollywood: ‘Inclusion Needs to Be a Movement and Not a Moment
The disabled community in Hollywood reminds their able-bodied colleagues to help join in the fight for equality and inclusion.
Another is “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu, who not only championed an inclusive and accessible set for wheelchair-using actor Marissa Bode, but also integrated universal design into the famed land of Oz, hiding discreet ramps that most able-bodied audiences wouldn’t notice but disabled viewers would. In 2018, during her best actress Oscar acceptance speech for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Frances McDormand brought up “inclusion riders,” a provision or stipulation in a performer’s contract that at least a certain amount of the cast and crew on a production is diverse. As Stan admitted in a 2024 interview with this author for Salon, he didn’t have much awareness of disabled issues before filming “A Different Man,” and learned a lot while portraying a character seemingly ostracized by society.
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