Staying true to the D.H. Lawrence classic, theater actor Matthew Duckett, who has cerebral palsy, made his feature film debut with “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” — the first disabled a…
“I’ve been in a great many productions where I’ve been allowed to live in my disability, which has been incredibly freeing as an actor,” Duckett said, describing the differing approaches to how productions address the accessibility needs of their actors. “But something I was really grateful to see happen was to have someone on-set dedicated to my needs as a disabled artist and to the honesty of the production of a disabled character.
The benefits of this counseling was not limited in scope to Duckett — Edge even collaborated with director of photography Benoît Delhomme to block scenes in a way that was wheelchair accessible and to highlight effective camera angles.was tasked with lifting Duckett out of his chair, intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien worked with the two actors to “strike a brilliant balance between intimacy and access coordination,” Edge said.
Banned in the U.K. back in the 1960s for its depictions of sex, that seem tame now, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is a scandalous love story between an aristocrat and a modest gamekeeper named Oliver Mellors , whom she meets at her husband’s country estate. The two engage in an affair as Lady Chatterley copes with the dissatisfaction of her current marriage to World War I veteran Clifford Chatterley .
“Period pieces always have the potential to be tricky in terms of both outdated opinions and actions around the Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent community,” said Edge, who worked closely on-set with Duckett as a disability and access consultant. “Especially when you’re dealing with a character who is new to his impairments and being part of the disabled community as a whole, like Clifford is in this piece.
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