Celebrated screenwriter Jack Thorne, whose credits include His Dark Materials and Shameless, has lambasted the lack of disability representation on TV in a keynote speech. Thorne says the industry needs to develop robust initiatives to get more disabled talent in front of and behind the camera.
Quotas are sometimes frowned upon in inclusivity circles because they can be seen as not meritocratic and smack of tokenism.
Nonetheless, they may be considered a measure of last resort when a situation appears dire and meaningful change is occurring at a snail’s pace. Right now, the figures above would suggest that such a scenario is firmly entrenched. Thorne would also like to see a push in the industry to make all studio facilities fully accessible, with a cross-industry fund established to pay for this.
He illuminated his point with a harrowing account of how a wheelchair user friend of his had to crawl around on-set due to a lack of proper disabled access and reduce her food and drink intake to once a day because there was no disabled toilet facilities.
“This year was a year of ableism like I’ve never seen before. This was a year when a lot of disabled people died,” he said. , Thorne’s upcoming projects also include, a story set in a nursing home in those most tragic early days of the pandemic, which saw the novel coronavirus tear its way through the country’s care facilities.
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