Doctor Who to feature more disabled actors in new era

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Doctor Who to feature more disabled actors in new Russell T Davies era

's casting director has said that there will be more disabled representation in Russell T Davies' new era of the show.in 2005, but the show is perhaps gearing up for its biggest shake-up in a decade with the 60th anniversary.should be leading the way on disability representation because its stories aren't limited to one place, one planet or even one universe.

"I like to cast as inclusively as possible," he said."It's more interesting. Also, if you can't cast diversely onThe casting director went on:"It goes everywhere, on this planet and others, and you don't want to see the same kind of people all the time. You don't want it to be exclusively middle-class white people speaking with RP accents."

Pryor acknowledged that"there's always more we can do", especially in terms of presenting disabled actors in roles where disability doesn't define their character. "Certainly, there's absolutely no excuse to not cast a disabled actor in a disabled role nowadays," he said."Also, we're trying to cast disabled people in roles that aren't necessarily written as disabled.

"We don't always want disabled casting to be 'issue' casting. So our horizons are widening. I want to see more disabled people on screen."The most recent casting of a disabled actor in the series has been Nadia Albina, playing Dan Lewis's friend Diane throughout theJodie Whittaker is set to finish her time in the TARDIS with a BBC Centenary special later this year, then

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I would prefer it if it were actors who just happened to be disabled.

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