00:00It was really exciting for me when this came along, as soon as I was cast, Megan Gallagher, the writer
00:04-showrunner, we had like an amazing long zoom and she, my character in the book doesn't have a disability, his
00:10storyline isn't about disability, but she's a parent of a disabled child and this is something that she, like myself,
00:17is 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
00:28the narrative we've seen of disability on screens before, which is often like Oscar bait, able-bodied actors pretending to
00:34be disabled, telling stories from a very abled lens about them overcoming their disability, which for myself and for all
00:43the disabled people I know is not real or relevant to our actual lived experience and actually can be quite
00:49isolating and harmful.
00:50And so to tell a story that like challenges the other characters in the show and also potentially could challenge
00:57audiences to rethink how they see disabled people and disability was, felt so meaningful and it's the kind of thing
01:07that I wish I would have seen growing up as a disabled person and I think it would have shifted
01:12my self-perception.
01:13So yeah, it was really exciting.
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