A WOKE actors’ union has been ridiculed for moaning Quasimodo is not played by a disabled person in a Hunchback of Notre Dame show.
Equity tore into the West End production after rising star Ben Joyce, 24, was picked for the lead.
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Tragic hero Quasimodo is blind in one eye, deaf and has a hunchback — sparking questions over who the union thinks should play him.
Equity says of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert: “There is a real and significant issue of casting a non-physically disabled performer in the role of a physically disabled character.”
It was mocked online and reminded acting is pretending to be someone else.
Charlie Howarth tweeted: “Do you think the casting call should have been for ‘hideous, hunchback disabled people’?
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“If so, do you really think this would have done much for disabled people?”
Another wrote: “Jesus wept, so you wanted to find an actual hump-backed person with a speech impediment to play the character?”
Top actors including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton have played Quasimodo on screen.
Responding to Equity, comic writer and anti-woke activist Graham Linehan wrote: “You f idiots.”
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