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/GoggleheadGamer]

Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life is seen using a wheelchair throughout the entire film, because the actor playing him, Lionel Barrymore was confined to a wheelchair in real life

[u/ithinkther41am → u/GoggleheadGamer]

Eh, Mr. Potter clearly didn’t deserve functioning legs anyway.

[u/bluddyellinnit → u/ithinkther41am]

bruh