At the time, Ruderman lambasted the industry for “systematically casting able-bodied actors portraying characters with disabilities”.
“Alec Baldwin in Blind is just the latest example of treating disability as a costume,” said Jay Ruderman, the foundation’s president.
The Ruderman Family Foundation, a leading disability rights group, has come out against the new film Blind, starring Alec Baldwin, in which the actor plays a novelist who loses his sight in a car crash.
Neither Mailer nor Baldwin has responded to the foundation’s claims.