But race is not the only factor in diversity. I’m more interested in the diversity of the characters than who is cast to play them.Īmid recent headlines over BookCon’s non-diverse panel controversy, let’s talk diversity and TFIOS. I do not as I wrote about in my Growing Up Fisher post. Simmons and Growing Up Fisher, some people have a problem with an actor who is sighted playing a character who is blind. I’m in the dark.” So I’m trying to work that into the movie somehow. Nat: Yeah its like “Im in the dark Charlie. So I got some of those speeches memorized you know. I met with this guy named Ethan and I watched Scent of a Woman. Physically I watched a lot of videos online of blind people. I put stuff over my glasses or Im wearing these contacts that make it so I can’t see anything and its almost freeing because you become really, you loose all self-consciousness. Nat: When I’m doing the scenes blind, I really can’t see anything. John: What’s it like playing a blind person? John Green interviews Nat Wolff–posted on Nerdfighteria

I researched a bit about the actor–Nat Wolff–who plays Isaac in the movie.

I’m drawn to Isaac for obvious reasons–hold your white canes in the air and wave ’em like you just don’t care. A major motion picture, expected to do great at the box office, features a secondary but prominent character who is blind.

An actor who is sighted plays the character who is visually impaired.įact. TFIOS is a movie/book with a character who is blind.įact. The New York Times bestselling author John Green wrote the 2012 novel by the same name. Regular readers (hello, favorites!) may remember my book review of TFIOS which was more a character study of Isaac, the teenager facing blindness due to an eye cancer. Just as I wrote about the TV show Growing Up Fisher featuring a character who is blind, I’m mentioning TFIOS today since Isaac will be returning.įact.

The fault in our stars movie poster