Bryan Cranston and Danny DeVito call out Hollywood for ignoring actors with disabilities

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A group of stars and executives have signed an open letter calling out Hollywood for contributing to the “systematic exclusion” of disabled people. Bryan Cranston, Danny DeVito and Mark Ruffalo are among the actors to urge Hollywood executives to cast more disabled actors and “embrace disability as a key facet of diversity”, in order to help “normalise” it and “erase the stigma that surrounds it”. “Hollywood recognises that it can’t ignore diversity, but still ignores that disability is part of that diversity,” reads the letter, which can be seen here in full. “In the history of the Academy Awards, among the 61 Oscar nominees and 27 winners playing characters with a disability, only two were authentically portrayed by an actor with disability,” it says.