mann (saffron@citynet.net)
Wed, 20 May 1998 11:06:25 -0400
From: Grant Watson <nzone@iinet.net.au>
To: Press Gang Mailing List <pressgang@lists.yoyo.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [pressgang] PG Cast
>>I agree. His poor enunciation marks him as a non-actor. As a result, the
>>more he's on the screen, the more it smacks of "Aren't we wonderful for
>>casting a tetraplegic?" I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but there it is.
>
>No, I'd agree with you completely here. If Andy Crowe was a good actor,
>then I'd forgive his presence, but it appeared too much that he was cast
>because he was physically disabled rather than because he was a talented
>actor (the primary consideration in any case - or at least it should be).
I have to put my 2 cents in here. I will go out on a limb here and guess
that I am probably the only physically handicapped person on this list (I am
deaf in one ear and severely hard-of-hearing in the other). His poor
enunciation marks him as a BAD actor, not a non-actor. If I see an actor
signing in a film, I want to know if he is Deaf or Hearing or a CODA (child
of deaf adults) or what. I imagine that the wheel-bound community feel the
same way.
It would have been very easy for Moffit et company to cast an able-bodied
person to play the role of Billy. That they did actually use someone really
in a wheelchair is to be commended. Can you imagine the logistics of
getting around in a wheelchair in a film studio -- cables everywhere, ramps
having to be put it just for you.... From what I see in SeeHear and other
British disability mags and from the Brits on my deaf lists I subscribe to
(and please correct me if I have assumed incorrectly), the UK still has a
long way to go in getting equal access (ramps, terps, CART
stenographers...). Most buildings are still hard to get into in a chair or
on crutches and deaf cyber friends tell me that finding a public meeting
that is being terped (even in London) is still rare.
Okay, my rant is over....
Karen
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