Alec Baldwin’s Latest Film Blasted For Treating ‘Disability As A Costume’

The male lead, Sam Claflin, in “Me Before You,” like Baldwin, is an able-bodied actor. In other recent examples, so are Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for his role as Stephen Hawking, who has ALS, in “The Theory of Everything” and Jamie Foxx, who is not blind, but portrayed the blind musician, Ray Charles in 2004.