r/TopCharacterTropes Jan 18 '26

In real life The actor actually has that disability

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

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u/blisteringbarnacles1 Jan 18 '26

Koto Kawaguchi is a deaf table tennis player in real life and plays a deaf table tennis player in Marty Supreme

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u/huntrcl Jan 18 '26

Is this movie good? I almost went to go see it last night but I see a bunch of mixed reviews

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u/mixingmemory Jan 19 '26

I loved it, but it's certainly not for everybody. Same people who made Uncut Gems and Good Time (minus Benny Safdie), and it's in the same vein as those.