He's been called 'phenomenal' by Mark Rylance, acted alongside Vicky McClure, played Hamlet, and taken part in critically acclaimed shorts, but Tommy Jessop believes there's still much progress to be made in how the film industry treats disabled actors Tommy Jessop was 22 when he first saw a character with Down's syndrome on screen. "It was … me!" he says with a grin, sitting in his family's living room. In the BBC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM on August 11, 2021