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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Charlotte McLaughlin

Film industry needs to stop seeing disability as a risk – A Different Man star

Adam Pearson stars in A Different Man (Ian West/PA) - (PA Wire)

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”.

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.

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