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Run to Hulu
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What better way could there be to spend Mother’s Day than in a movie theater watching a thriller about a creepy mom who has kept her wheelchair-using daughter completely isolated from the world and controlled her every move? Prior to the pandemic, that was the thinking that led Hollywood to schedule Run for a May 8 release to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend. Now, six months later, you can finally see whether the film’s buzz was deserved.
Real-life wheelchair-using actor Kiera Allen takes direction from Aneesh Chaganty.
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The film stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, The People vs. O.J. Simpson) as the mom and newcomer Kiera Allen — a real wheelchair user — as the daughter, and finally gets its worldwide debut Nov. 20 on Hulu. Disability writer Emily Ladau says not to miss Allen’s breakthrough performance. “To know that Kiera Allen wasn’t performing disability, but rather that she was performing a character, made it feel as though watching Run was a radical act,” says Ladau. “There’s power in witnessing authentic disability representation on screen.” Make sure to visit Newmobility.com in the days leading up to the release for Ladau’s interview with Allen. 8
NEW MOBILITY
A New Way to Stand It seems like there’s a new prototype wheelchair popping up every few weeks, and the latest to generate online discussion is the modified Segway stander built by United Kingdom architect Suzanne Brewer. Brewer, who does not use a wheelchair, has been working on the prototype for two years. “Standing wheelchairs at the moment are bespoke, they are made for that person,” Brewer told Architects’ Suzanne Brewer and her nonJournal. “That disabled son Jarvis demonstrate doesn’t make her Segway-based stander. them accessible to enough people, unfortunately, and it makes them very expensive.” Most run around £25,000 in the U.K., which spurred Brewer to create a generic model that is more affordable and usable by most anyone who needs it. Check out bit.ly/2SG3GZs to see what you think.
