Award-winning short film Chicken features Burnaby Actor Aaron Waddingham.
The disability arts community is coming together in support of the highly anticipated short film, Chicken, starring Burnaby actor Aaron Waddingham.
In most films with disabled characters, Waddingham’s father, Mike Waddingham explained,”[Disabled characters] were kind of mascot-y — they happened to be on the screen, that’s it.” But Chicken was different — it’s a story which has never been told — for its reflection of what he saw as a parent, “which was an authentic tale of a sibling relationship, one of whom just happens to have Down syndrome.
Lucy McNulty, the writer, co-director and producer of the women-led crew, said that she was inspired by her own relationship with a friend who has Down syndrome. “Our relationship just like anybody's relationship — it is not always easy,” she said. “There is tension and laughter, and compassion and fighting. And I wanted to put that on screen, something that was really real, really authentic.”
In fact, McNulty noted, he has the most dialogue in the whole film. “I knew what he was capable of. He can handle monologues; he is incredible.” The film was made over two years during the pandemic. After shooting started in September 2021, the crew was highly cautious about keeping the set safe because of many of the actors were immunocompromised actors. Pollard said that they wanted to be flexible and compassionate towards everyone on the set. “Part of our attitude going into production was to be flexible with cancelling and changing stuff as and when we needed,” she said.
"The more I worked with Aaron, the more I realized that creating a film is about learning how to communicate with each other,” Pollard said, adding that the underlying theme of the movie is about "really reclaiming your own insecurities and fears and even labels that people have given you. And the support that you get from your family."
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