Sia has expressed regret over responding to criticism of her decision to cast a neurotypical actor as the non-verbal autistic lead in her upcoming new film, Music.Many took to social media in November to voice their criticism following the release of the film’s first trailer, which shows Maddie Ziegler, who is not autistic, playing the role of a nonverbal autistic teenager named Music.Sia responded to a number of comments on Twitter, saying she had consulted autistic people and allies on the film and that she had cast Ziegler only after trying to work with a “beautiful young girl non-verbal on the spectrum” who “found [the project] unpleasant and stressful.”In response to one user, who identified themselves as an autistic actor among many.
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