Quitting hiring abled actors to play disabled people Hollywood! It's disgusting how little you depict reality when it comes to disabled people. I know you guys just like making these movie into tear-jerkers that allows able people to feel bad and look down upon disabled people with their snobby pitty. It's disgusting and doesn't reflect reality at all!
shareI firmly believe on hiring the best actor who can fit the part, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual preference, disability status, etc. That's why it's called "acting". If there are any disabled actors who auditioned for the role, fit the part and could have done a better job acting than the guy they chose, then great...They should have been chosen. If not, then they chose the actor they thought was best for the part.
share*barf*
shareOh, so you would enjoy the movie more if it starred an actual quadriplegic (from England, since we're being oh-so-exacting) who might be a terrible actor and has no acting rather than experience over an actor who can act well and has experience?
If people like you made these decisions, the movie industry would collapse and we wouldn't have ANY movies to watch for entertainment.
...and has no acting experience rather than an actor who can act well*
shareYou're talking like they even bothered. The author didn't even bother with talking to anyone who was actually quadriplegic before writing the book. The actor playing the man with quadriplegia never spoke to anyone with it before doing the role. Sorry, if I just find supreme disgust in piles of excrement that want to say how all that matters is the best actor when movies like this don't even want to put in the bare minimum effort of asking someone experiencing what the movie is about before doing it.
shareYou don't get it at all. You know how many disabled actors would have killed for this role? Do you realize that Hollywood repeatedly hires abled actors to played disabled people?
Here's a link to a decent article on the topic-
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-hollywood-diversity-disabled-20160610-snap-story.html
"Gail Williamson, a talent agent at Kazarian, Measures, Ruskin and Associates, has been advocating on behalf of the differently abled for more than 20 years. With 120 disabled clients on her roster, she believes a number of them could have easily taken on the “Me Before You” role."-taken directly from the article I linked above.
So the sad excuse that it's "acting" is tired and unfounded. There are plenty of disabled actors/actresses to fill disability roles. Hollywood just ignores them and is okay creating their own fantasies about disabled people's lives.
Oh shut up. The point of acting is that you don't have to play someone exactly like yourself. Should they have gotten someone with ALS to play Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything? And no *beep* not everything is going to be ~*realistic*~, it's called artistic license.
shareI agree with the person who started this thread. Star Trek is one of the biggest offenders in this area. They cant find some real vulcans or klingons so they hire HUMANS to portray them? absurd.
shareIt's not a funny subject, but this is the funniest (and true) reply! Can we only hire mentally ill people to play mentally ill? Unless the actor was horrifically bad, I don't understand the objection. Of course Hollywood needs to hire with more diversity, but that's a huge, huge conversation too long for this page.
Oh bloody get over yourself will you. They're actors, it's what they do. And if you bothered to watch any behind the scenes on the film or read any interviews with the author you'd know they all have a deep understanding and the utmost respect for the topics at hand.
Quite frankly I'm sick of threads like this one. People are so eager to find something, ANYTHING, to be offended by these days.
It's the literal definition of acting. Now, I haven't seen this movie yet, and I wonder if the poster even has..but clearly they never saw Leo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot or Jamie Foxx in Ray.
sharePreach!!!!! Well said, shyroma.
shareAs someone with multiple "disabilities" (Autism, spinal deformity, amongst others), I can honestly say that I don't care if they hire "abled" actors to play disabled people. Acting is about playing someone who isn't yourself, and I respect actors and their craft.
All I ask is that the roles are played respectively and with some form of accuracy, and recently they've been a lot better with that.
It's impressive to see someone without a disability be able to put their selves in someone else's shoes, and a lot of these roles have shown disability's in a positive light.
I would be okay with if there weren't plenty of disabled actors who are being denied a job due to Hollywood's insistence to choose abled actors over actors with disabilities in these types of movies. It's not as if Hollywood makes a ton of movies about disabilities so when they do why the hell would they choose an abled actor for the role over a disabled actor?
It's despicable.
Ummm, it's a movie...? It's make believe. That's the whole point.
You don't like this kind of movie don't go see it.
as a disabled woman myself, i'd agree with you if will was in a wheelchair the whole time, i'd be inclined to agree with you. however, that is not the case. will is able bodied for a few scenes. what are you going to do, switch out the able one for the disabled one? that won't look ridiculous or anything! *eye roll*
shareI've got it. They could hire twins. One of which is disabled from the neck down, have model good looks and are good actors. I mean, how hard could that be?
shareI am so sick of PC whiners like you.
They needed an able-bodied actor to show Will's active life pre-accident.