Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
Jan Grue as Ivar Salvesen in Occupied. ‘The series was set in modern, progressive Norway, so no one referred to my character as a “cripple” or with any other kind of slur. That did not change the essential fact of characterisation. And no sensitivity reading on the verbal, or even conceptual level, could change that.’“As a wheelchair user, I could not help noticing that the original Bond books had, shall we say, an interesting relationship to.
Grue makes a fantastic close read of what’s really at play when we’re talking about dated attitudes in storytelling. And then returns to a point that’s been made again and again: you can re-edit old stories, but only to a certain point. At a certain point, you can just read Grue played a political assistant to the fictional PM in a Norwegian TV series – and as drafts of the show progressed, realised his character was “joining the ranks of Dr Strangelove and the usual wheelchair-using baddies”.
. A source of rich emotional material, and in fact one of the best subjects to evoke “the feeling of summer warmth on your skin”. To her claim that: “A banana has not fallen in love with other fruits; experienced joy or loss,” I would simply say she has clearly never been to a show where a mime makes several bananas act out a dramatic break-up scene and murder at the club – something I experienced earlier this year, weirdly compelling.
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