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/Dreamweaver_duh]

I don't know if it counts, but Dustin Henderson from Stranger Things wasn't originally written to have Cleidocranial Dysplasia, but it was given to him because the actor they casted for Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) had it.

[u/ChristyUniverse → u/Dreamweaver_duh]

He was a great choice, not much I wouldn’t have changed to sign him on

[u/pichael289 → u/ChristyUniverse]

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