The Me Before You director, Thea Sharrock, has defended her film – which stars Game of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke as a woman who dates a disabled man who wishes to die – against campaigners who have called it a “disability snuff film”.
In Me Before You, Clarke’s character, Lou, falls in love with Will (Sam Calflin), a quadriplegic man she is caring for.
Me Before You debuted in the US last week, taking $18.3M (£12.7m) in its opening weekend.
Before they met, Will had – spoilers ahead – decided he wanted to die rather than live as a disabled man.