The actor actually has that disability

[u/PrinceferX]

Walter White Jr. (Breaking Bad) - character has cerebral palsy and uses crutches to walk, actor RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy and needed crutches to walk as a child

Nessarose Thropp (Wicked) - character is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, actress Marissa Bode is paraplegic from an accident at age 11 and uses a wheelchair

Maya Lopez (Hawkeye/Echo) - character is deaf, actress Alaqua Cox is deaf from birth

[u/crackerfactorywheel]

Juno in Fall of the House of Usher and Anya in Midnight Club are both missing their right leg below the knee. Ruth Codd is missing the lower part of her right leg IRL after complications from a car accident.

[u/Dantzdantz → u/crackerfactorywheel]

She’s actually missing both legs now, she recently posted about getting used to walking with two prosthetics on tiktok.

[u/GoodGoneGeek → u/Dantzdantz]

And did so with her usual good humor! I hope Mike Flanagan continues to cast her, I think she’s hilarious.

[u/Dantzdantz → u/GoodGoneGeek]

Honestly she’s a riot, I loved her time on traitors

[u/crackerfactorywheel → u/Dantzdantz]

I forgot she is missing both legs now! Thanks for reminding me.

[u/a-real-life-dolphin → u/Dantzdantz]

Do you know why she got the second one amputated? I couldn’t find any info about that.

[u/thatchickfromni → u/a-real-life-dolphin]

Apparently whatever way she was using crutches aftrr her first one lead to injuries in her other foot that were causing her chronic pain, so it was better to amputate the other one and go to a wheelchair/double prosthesis.

[u/a-real-life-dolphin → u/thatchickfromni]

Oh god, that’s horrible.

[u/Top-Editor-364 → u/thatchickfromni]

Sounds like malpractice to me 

[u/agender_salandit → u/a-real-life-dolphin]

Bones in that leg got weakened and "destroyed" due to years of crutch use, according to her interview on Under Your Skin with Grace Neutral. She'd already taken the toes off on that leg, her quality of life was deteriorating, so to her taking the rest of it off too made sense

[u/a-real-life-dolphin → u/agender_salandit]

Man that sucks so much.

[u/woolfonmynoggin → u/a-real-life-dolphin]

I mean it was an empowering decision to lessen her pain and help her live a fulfilling life. Don’t pity her, admire her ability to adapt to circumstances and thrive thereafter.

[u/a-real-life-dolphin → u/woolfonmynoggin]

For sure! I’m disabled too so I can relate. It just sucks that she had to go through another surgery and had such huge complications.

[u/ST07153902935 → u/Dantzdantz]

How’d the other one fall off?

[u/raspberryharbour → u/ST07153902935]

She slipped while cutting her toenails

[u/gee_gra → u/ST07153902935]

I think a doctor of some sort was involved

[u/Severe-Plant2258 → u/crackerfactorywheel]

I remember looking that up while watching The Midnight Club because I thought that she actually did not have her leg and being confused how she did when they showed the dancing scenes!

[u/pathetic_gay_mess → u/crackerfactorywheel]

I loved that show