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15th September 2017
07:54am BST

“Gyllenhaal may have been the best actor for the part, but if actors with disabilities are never given a chance to audition they will never have the opportunity to reach the success that someone like Gyllenhaal has achieved."https://twitter.com/StrongerTheFilm/status/877911565906845696 Ruderman said that even though people with disabilities make up "twenty percent of our society," they represent just two percent of actors on screen.
“This inauthenticity in having able-bodied actors play a character with a disability will inevitably be seen by the public buying tickets to Hollywood’s films as unacceptable, just as we wouldn’t accept a white actor play a black character.”The disability rights campaigner went on to say that even though we are told that Hollywood films need a popular star attached to them to succeed, he does not believe this to be true. He pointed to Children of a Lesser God and Rocky as examples of this. Gyllenhaal's film, Stronger, is set to be released on September 22.
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