‘Glee’ alum Kevin McHale says he wouldn’t play a character in a wheelchair now

Kevin McHale, right, played wheelchair-using student Artie Abrams in “Glee,” while Dianna Agron played Quinn Fabray, a character who used a wheelchair only after getting hurt in a car accident. “I don’t know if Artie could be in it,” McHale said Wednesday to Insider, talking about Artie Abrams, the character he played in the Fox musical series that ran from 2009 to 2015. my beard and play a different character, I’ll do it.” Show creator Ryan Murphy floated the idea of a reboot last week during a podcast hosted by McHale and former co-star Jenna Ushkowitz, who played Tina Cohen-Chang on the show. Another show airing in the U.S., ‘Covert Affairs,’ is also currently engaging in ‘cripface,’ and there’s a long history of casting nondisabled actors in disabled roles.” Jim Sheridan, director of 1989’s “My Left Foot,” which earned an Oscar for actor Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of a man with cerebral palsy, told Sky News last year, “I don’t think it’s right anymore” to cast able-bodied actors to play disabled characters.