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Music movie and Sia

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Did anyone watch the movie Music or heard about the controversy?

Apparently she badly misrepresented autistic people and then doubled down and said a lot of things that pissed people off.

I've only just heard about it, wondering what others think. I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBl3he3Nqg

Also do you think it is acceptable to cast a non-autistic person as an autistic character?

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  • I think it is entirely acceptable for non-autistic actors to play autistic characters, as long as they do a good job and the available autistic actors were unsuitable. An actor's job is to pretend to be another person, the present trend of 'you have to be what you portray' has become stupid. Plus it is applied unfairly, you can cast a black actor as Macbeth, but not a white actor as Othello. Roles should be cast purely on ability.

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  • I think it is entirely acceptable for non-autistic actors to play autistic characters, as long as they do a good job and the available autistic actors were unsuitable. An actor's job is to pretend to be another person, the present trend of 'you have to be what you portray' has become stupid. Plus it is applied unfairly, you can cast a black actor as Macbeth, but not a white actor as Othello. Roles should be cast purely on ability.

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