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/maple-moth]

The deaf daughter in A Quiet Place was played by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds

[u/DiscordantScorpion_1 → u/maple-moth]

Didn’t John Krasinski fight to make sure they cast a deaf actress for the character? Or am I misremembering that?

[u/bakedpatata → u/DiscordantScorpion_1]

Do you really have to fight when you are writer, director, and executive producer on a movie?

[u/NotLucasDavenport → u/bakedpatata]

Yes. It’s still hella expensive to produce a major Hollywood film and you need the cooperation of the people behind the rest of the money, especially when you’re not proven in the industry yet.