How many mainstream disabled actors or TV personalities can you name?
They need to acknowledge that it exists and decree that TV needs to represent disabled people as one in five of the population.”
If disabled talent is not getting cast as disabled people, and nobody is going to green screen us onto non-disabled bodies, what roles can we play?”
There’s a strong argument that non-disabled actors playing the roles of disabled characters prevents disabled actors building any profile.“There will never be any disabled talent with name value until we’re given the roles to build that profile,” says Edge.