Emily Blunt is in talks to play blind and deaf author Rebecca Alexander in another instance of 'playing' disability
Share to twitterEmily Blunt is in talks to play a deaf and blind woman, continuing the problems of disabled representation. In the disabled community there's a term:"cripping up." It's in reference to when an able-bodied person puts on the role of a person with disabilities. This has been the industry standard since Hollywood started and there's been little push to change that.
The saddest thing is that it'd be very easy to champion this film because of how rarely women with any perceived disability are represented on-screen. Nine times out of 10 these films feature white men. However, when white women are the focus they're often enduring"pretty" disabilities, i.e. deafness or blindness. Pretty in this sense implies that it doesn't alter their physical attractiveness.
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