An interesting set of complaints about the film Music for failing to cast an autistic person to play an autistic person.
I remember similar comments about a straight man being cast to play a gay man.
The arguments for and against are interesting. There are some mathematical principles I use to test ideas. In this case I like to reverse the argument to see what it looks like. Could you say a gay actor can never play a straight person? Was it wrong to cast George Takei as Sulu? Should Daryl Hannah have been disqualified from film roles where the characters were not autistic?
The idea of asking people to declare their sexual orientation before casting them in a film is something that would be abhorrent to many.
Is this a form of positive discrimination, well according to Ian McKellen it isn’t needed.
Are “causes” sometimes as much about a desire to complain as they are about fixing a wrong.