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Kate Rice

I will only cheer Sebastian Stan’s new role when disabled actors get the same chances

Sebastian Stan

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The headlines are already crowing: “Sebastian Stan looks unrecognisable in new role!” says one. “Take a look at Sebastian Stan’s major transformation!” trills another. I’m already exhausted.

The Avengers heartthrob has been pictured on the set of independent film company A24’s ‘A Different Man’, masked in prosthetics for his role as a man with neurofibromatosis – a genetic condition that causes tumours to grow along your nerves. After the internet imploded in response to Sia hiring a non-autistic actress to play the lead in the controversial film ‘Music’, it makes you wonder – is this any better?

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