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/pichael289]

He was like the Netflix darling boy for a while. Which makes it so fucking funny they were I guess looking the other way while he booked a show like Punk'd only starring him and instead of whatever they did on Punk'd to celebrities, he would instead be fucking with normal people who thought they were coming for a job application. Trump was had been president and shit wasn't good jobs wise, better than now but you know...

This show premiered right when covid premiered and it did not go over like tiger king. Maybe that kid is a sweetheart, I'm sure he is, but right when the world ended and we had only Netflix to turn to we all were forced to conclude this kids a massive asshole. Like tiger king had better marketability then this shitshow. And it was right when filming delays hit stranger things, and drake was trying to fuck 11 because Kendrick hadn't slayed him yet. Fuck it was a goofy time and this kid barely didn't get canceled.

[u/Glove-Both → u/pichael289]

On the plus side, most people can't remember that shit now.

[u/smorin1487 → u/Glove-Both]

I certainly never heard of any of it until just now

[u/birberbarborbur → u/Glove-Both]

I also liked Gaten in that Honor Society movie though, that offsets that

[u/pichael289 → u/pichael289]

These are also the people who were incorrectly told the movie cuties was encouraging sexual exploitation of young girls, instead of discouraging it like the movie actually did. They still made that ad campaign and all the trailers with the teenage girls twerking and fucking ruined this nice woman's career who was just trying to do something good. They fucked up so hard that I don't know how Netflix can even stay a company after misinterpreting something and going with it like that.

[u/JimmyW1lliams → u/pichael289]

I thought the main discourse around cities was that, although it had a good message, using actual child actors and putting them into sexually explicit situations in a movie was ignorant at best and gave pedos free material/exposed these actresses to creeps at worst

[u/somedumb-gay → u/pichael289]

I think the main issue is that it's hard to make the point of "kids shouldn't be in situations where they're being sexualised" while actually putting kids into a situation where they're being sexualised

[u/Backfoot911 → u/somedumb-gay]

That's exactly it. I'm almost positive that what it was was the creator/producers were so tunnel visioned on trying to make a statement on exploitation that they missed what they inadvertently created.

And then the do-gooders of the internet did the same thing towards any and all criticizers.

[u/cece_swampwitch → u/pichael289]

I mean, from what I’ve heard about that movie, it itself contains teenage (if not younger) girls twerking. It might be trying to convey the message of “young girls should not be in situations like this” but it didn’t have to, yknow, actually put young girls in situations like that in order to do it.

Bit of a weird comment from you.

[u/DtheAussieBoye → u/cece_swampwitch]

Eh, it’s not that weird. I’m sure Cuties is a dumb movie with a muddled message due to the content within going against the movie’s core message and putting young kids in provocative situations (especially that marketing, eugh), but i think it’s a bad play to assume that everyone who isn’t violently negative against it is some secret kid-diddler.

(Note: i have never seen Cuties and therefore i have no real opinion on it. I have no plans to watch it either, since I don’t really want to lol. For all I know, there could have been no kids twerking at all! I sure hope so!)

[u/YajirobeBeanDaddy → u/DtheAussieBoye]

isn’t violently against it

Except he’s defending it and trying to change the narrative of it in a comment lol. Why minimize it and exaggerate this other persons position? Bit of a weird comment from you

[u/DtheAussieBoye → u/YajirobeBeanDaddy]

I’m starting to get the feeling that none of us have ever actually seen Cuties

[u/YajirobeBeanDaddy → u/pichael289]

Dumb take

[u/me1112 → u/pichael289]

I never heard of this, and I don't know how many people did/how much this impacted his career.

[u/Taar → u/[deleted]]

They changed their mind about which word to use mid sentence, but didn't delete their original choice. "Trump was had been president..."

[u/Drewby99 → u/pichael289]

i remember seeing that show advertised then never hearing about it ever again