Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
No reason the receptionist who makes with flirtatious banter couldn't be in a wheelchair, or whatever.
No reason she couldn't be fat or just funny looking either, but nearly as rarely is.
I think American casting tends to favor the perfect in general. I watch Britcoms and think "huh, these people look so normal ."
I watch Britcoms and think "huh, these people look so normal ."
Without, still, being any more disabled.
Darryl "Chill" Mitchell was in The Laroquette Show, Galaxy Quest, and a bunch of other shows/movies, before he was crippled in a motorcycle accident in 2001. Since then, he's appeared in the show Ed, and maybe one or two other episodes of other shows.
It's a shame. He was cool.
The worst pain I've probably had was my skull fracture, but the worst I've felt was from the stomach flu a couple of years ago. Not too much pain, but I literally had to take an hour nap when I foolishy tried to walk from one room to another.
Oh yeah, I forgot he was in the chair in real life.
Without, still, being any more disabled.
Unless you count the teeth.
Unless you count the teeth.
By stereotypical British standards, Tom Cruise is the disabled one.
Woo-hoo! My cooling storm front has arrived... and with an actual bang.
He's an actor I'd love to see get more work, Perkins.
To make dill pickles?
Yep.
I've heard this is good, Plei: [link]
Yes, I could not play myself in my life story. Somehow people need to feel the actor could take the chair off, in some way I don't understand. I would want JJL to play me, anyway, though.