[AMP-L] ‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities

[Wayne Renardson]

via The New York Times:

The Apple TV+ series, based loosely on a memoir by Josh Sundquist,  
prioritized disability representation on both sides of the camera.

Casting the right actor for a role often means finding someone who 
matches the character description in a script, but Josh Sundquist 
didn´t know if that was possible for his series "Best Foot Forward."

"It sounds silly in retrospect, but this was four years ago," 
Sundquist recalled recently. "At the time, it simply didn´t occur to 
me it would even be possible to hire an amputee actor."

Sundquist was helping to cast a fictionalized version of his younger 
self, the lead role in "Best Foot Forward," which debuts Friday on 
Apple TV+. Loosely based on Sundquist´s memoir, "Just Don´t Fall," 
the series centers on a 12-year-old boy who is the only child at his 
school with a limb difference. Sundquist, who is an executive 
producer on the series, lost his left leg to bone cancer when he was 
10.  

The rest of the story, with photos, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2568baz4

Wayne R.