British actor and campaigner Adam Pearson, who stars in the dark comedy A Different Man, has urged the movie industry to stop seeing disability as a “risk”.
A Different Man won best feature film at the Gotham Film Awards, while Stan won the best acting gong at the Golden Globes for the same movie.
Pearson, who stars in the film, which follows an actor with neurofibromatosis who undergoes an experimental procedure to change his face, said the industry can be very risk-averse when exploring disability.
A Different Man also stars Sebastian Stan, who is up for a best acting gong for playing the Donald Trump before he became the US president in The Apprentice.
Pearson added: “I don’t think there’s like a reason not to pull the trigger on these kind of stories and these kind of films starring disabled actors anymore.
