Sia has issued an apology over how autism is portrayed in some parts of her debut movie, ‘Music’. This came a day after the film received two Golden Globe nominations.The film has proven controversial for a number of reasons, almost entirely related to the portrayal of a nonverbal autistic character.
Early anger was aimed at the fact that regular Sia collaborator, Maddie Ziegler, who is not autistic, had been cast in that role.The musician made things worse by refusing to accept any such criticism, and then saying that Ziegler’s casting was more “nepotism” than “ableism”, because Sia couldn’t “do a project without her”.That was all before people even saw the film.
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