BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 20:47:00
You referenced arthur hughes, who is getting rave reviews for playing richard iii. and as you say, he's a richard iii who has a genuine disability, which is very visible on stage. and that is seen as sort of, quote unquote, authentic, a real lived experience. but how far do you take that? there's a real debate... there is. ...across acting and across theatre and other forms of drama, saying do you now have to have a gay person playing a gay character? yeah. how far do you take lived experience? well, taking richard, the extraordinary thing about arthur's lived experience of disability — he h...