Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is coming under fire from a Paralympian for playing a former FBI agent with a prosthetic leg in his new movie, Skyscraper.
On Monday, Katy Sullivan — a bilateral above knee amputee and four-time Paralympic Games champion who has appeared as an actress on shows like NCIS: New Orleans and My Name Is Earl — wrote an open letter to Johnson published by Deadline, asking the 46-year-old action star to “stop saying ‘Yes’ to roles” that involve putting on “the mask of disability.”
“Individuals with disabilities make up almost 20 percent of the world’s population,” she wrote in her piece,...
On Monday, Katy Sullivan — a bilateral above knee amputee and four-time Paralympic Games champion who has appeared as an actress on shows like NCIS: New Orleans and My Name Is Earl — wrote an open letter to Johnson published by Deadline, asking the 46-year-old action star to “stop saying ‘Yes’ to roles” that involve putting on “the mask of disability.”
“Individuals with disabilities make up almost 20 percent of the world’s population,” she wrote in her piece,...
- 7/17/2018
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
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