Bryan Cranston, Danny DeVito and Mark Ruffalo are among the actors to urge Hollywood executives to cast more disabled actors and “embrace disability as a key facet of diversity”, in order to help “normalise” it and “erase the stigma that surrounds it”.
It also points out that many disabled characters are played by able-bodied actors.
A group of stars and executives have signed an open letter calling out Hollywood for contributing to the “systematic exclusion” of disabled people.
In recent years, Bryan Cranston in The Upside, Sam Claflin in Me Before You, and Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything have all been accused of “cripping up”.