[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.

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