![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My heart has always been in the right place." F****** sad nobody's even seen the dang movie. She wrote that same day: "I cast thirteen neuroatypical people, three trans folk, and not as f****** prostitutes or drug addicts but as doctors, nurses and singers. The fact of the matter is zero effort was made to include anyone who is actually autistic." To which Sia replied: "Maybe you're just a bad actor." We all said we could have acted in it on short notice. ![]() One user, for example, tweeted: "Several autistic actors, myself included, responded to these tweets. Though this may have pacified some of her critics, she followed this up by insulting one of her critics. In one of her first tweets when the controversy broke, she revealed: "I actually tried working with a beautiful young girl non-verbal on the spectrum and she found it unpleasant and stressful. Maddie Ziegler in 'Music.' Vertical EntertainmentĪddressing the criticisms of the casting of her long-term collaborator Ziegler on Twitter, Sia is generally agreed to have made things worse for herself. However, there have been increasing calls for disabled or neuro-divergent actors, who have long been under-represented in Hollywood, to play these roles. Dozens of actors have been nominated for playing disabled or neurodivergent people over the years, and yet only two disabled people have won acting Oscars-Harold Russell, the star of 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives who had both of his hands amputated, and deaf actor Marlee Maitlin for 1986's Children of a Lesser God. Actors have long garnered awards for such portrayals, with actors like Eddie Redmayne (for The Theory of Everything), Dustin Hoffman ( Rain Man) and Daniel Day-Lewis ( My Left Foot) winning Oscars for such roles. This comes after a long debate over whether able-bodied and/or neurotypical people should play disabled or neurodivergent characters. The controversy over the film began when the trailer and first music video for the film were released in November, with many taking to Twitter to ask why Sia had not hired someone on the autistic spectrum to play the character. In the film, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for best musical of comedy, Sia's long-time collaborator Maddie Ziegler plays Music, a non-verbal young woman on the autistic spectrum, who comes under the guardianship of her recovering addict half-sister Zu (played by Kate Hudson.) Music has become one of the year's most controversial films, with viewers criticizing the directorial debut of singer Sia for its casting of an able-bodied, neurotypical person in the lead role and for what they see as its stereotypical portrayal of people with autism. ![]()
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