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How Lauren Ridloff & Joshua Feldman Are Making Hollywood More Accessible For Disabled Creatives

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Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Feldman are being the change they hope to see in Hollywood. The creative duo spoke to Deadline about the importance of hiring deaf and disabled creatives on both sides of the camera to tell authentic stories—and they hope the industry follows their lead.“The most important thing to keep in mind when we tell stories about others, so to speak, is that authenticity should always be the goal.

Tell true, real stories that resonate with people with disabilities, and also people who live within the world of people with disabilities,” Ridloff told Deadline at SDCC following the Inevitable Foundations‘ “Disability Representation On and Off Screen” panel which featured both Ridloff and Feldman as speakers.“I feel like when there are only actors in front of the camera and that’s the only person with a disability that’s involved [in a project], that’s when we can get into the dangerous area of stereotyping,” she continued. “How do you know what kind of story you’re actually telling?

Whose truth is that? The story is based on assumptions about what the ‘other’ experience might be. I think it’s so critical that we continue to push for more representation behind the camera because that’s when we actually get out of that dangerous area of stereotyping and instead tell authentic stories.”Ridloff recently starred as superhero Makkari in the 2021 Marvel film Eternals and on the small screen, the character of Connie in The Walking Dead—both of who are deaf.

She is currently set to executive produce and star in an as-yet-untitled Starz project, in collaboration with Ava DuVernay and Joshua Jackson, about two polar opposites (Ridloff and Jackson) who become intertwined in a love affair that turns their worlds – and

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