The streaming wars continue to rage, including the best Peacock shows to watch. Those with a Peacock subscription were recently treated to full season of All Her Fault, which stars Emmy-winner Sarah Snook. The cast also includes actor/screenwriter Daniel Monks, who spoke to CinemaBlend about the crafting of his character Brian, and the importance of disability representation in the media.
While folks figure out how to stream All Her Fault, folks are binge watching the book to screen adaptation. As you can see in the video above, I had the chance to speak with the cast ahead of its release, where I asked Monks about the way his character's disability was portrayed. He told me how this role was changed seemingly with him in mind.
00:00It was really exciting for me when this came along, as soon as I was cast, Megan Gallagher, the writer-showrunner, we had like an amazing long zoom and she, my character in the book doesn't have a disability, his storyline isn't about disability, but she's a parent of a disabled child and this is something that she, like myself, is very passionate about, about more interesting but also progressive representation for disability on screens.
00:22And so it felt really exciting to me because it felt like almost like an antidote to a lot of the narrative we've seen of disability on screens before, which is often like Oscar bait, able-bodied actors pretending to be disabled, telling stories from a very abled lens about them overcoming their disability, which for myself and for all the disabled people I know is not real or relevant to our actual lived experience and actually can be quite isolating and harmful.
00:50And so to tell a story that like challenges the other characters in the show and also potentially could challenge audiences to rethink how they see disabled people and disability was, felt so meaningful and it's the kind of thing that I wish I would have seen growing up as a disabled person and I think it would have shifted my self-perception.
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