'I think it will have a little renaissance, that would be really nice.'
is a nonverbal girl of color played by Madison Brandy, an autistic teenager who is mostly nonspeaking, which shows that casting nonspeaking actors can be done well and that it’s possible to make set accessible to neurodiverse actors."with Zane Lowe."It took me 20 years to make that movie. I wrote the music and wrote the film with my friend, and it took me 20 years of thinking about it and then five, six years to make it and then edit it.
When Zane then said that Sia's own autism was likely why she was drawn to the movie's"subject matter," Sia replied,"What was extra funny was someone said, 'I should have gotten Maddie's part, these are the parts I miss out on that I should get.' I just wrote back, like an arsehole, 'Maybe you're not a very good actor.
When it came to people accusing her of being"ableist" for her response, Sia told Zane,"Actually, I think it's the opposite of ableist. I think I just treated her like I would treat anybody on the internet.""Of course, when it comes out that I was just speaking to a peer, oh the irony! It was so interesting," she continued, going on to attribute the online"negativity" to QAnon, Reddit, and algorithms.
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