Fans of CBS' 'Mom' are curious whether or not the actor who plays wheelchair-bound Adam is really disabled. Here is what you need to understand.
CBS' Mom has been going strong for 6 seasons now, and the sequence presentations no indicators of stopping. Last week, we watched as wheelchair-bound Adam (William Fichtner) purchased Bonnie (Alison Janney) a new automobile, while Christy went out with Sergei, Yuri's cousin.
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Adam Janikowski, who met Bonnie Plunkett in Season Three when he accidentally dialed the flawed quantity and Bonnie replied the phone, changed into a mainstay on the display in Season 4. Before lengthy, Adam moved in with Bonnie, much to the relief of Mom enthusiasts who adored the character and never wanted him to depart.
But now that he's right here to stick, many viewers are wondering whether or not William Fichtner, the actor who plays Bonnie's different half, if truth be told makes use of a wheelchair.
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So, does William Fichtner use a wheelchair?
In actual lifestyles, William Fichtner — who you could acknowledge from movies like The Perfect Storm, Black Hawk Down and The Dark Knight — does not use a wheelchair to get round.
However, in line with any person on Quora who does use a guide chair and has one thing of "a sixth sense about which actors are real users and who's not," William "does a pretty good job."
But others are not up to happy with the decision to forged an able-bodied actor in the role of the disabled stuntman, and are taking to Twitter to ask CBS about their resolution. "Is it too hard to cast an actor actually in a wheelchair?" wrote one pissed off viewer. "I know plenty of them. Ableism is a form of discrimination." "Maybe they can replace Adam with an actor who's actually in a wheelchair..." added any other.
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These days, William Fichtner is not by myself with regards to playing a character in a wheelchair. Superstore's Garrett is additionally performed via able-bodied actor Colton Dunn and the actress who portrays Delilah in NCIS doesn't use a wheelchair either.
In fact, the only sigh of relief on TV these days is the truth that Patton on NCIS: New Orleans is played by Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who, like his personality, is additionally paralyzed from the waist down.
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Remind me, why is Adam in a wheelchair on Mom?
There's certainly that Hollywood can do better now not simply in casting actors with disabilities for these roles, but additionally in making sure the characters they write don't seem to be simply there for his or her bodily variations.
Adam does indeed feel like a round persona who lives with a disability, sure, but also has a life of his personal as neatly. He's funny, unbiased, intelligent and loves beer virtually as much as he loves Bonnie.
For fanatics who may need a little bit of a refresher on how Adam ended up in a wheelchair, it is because he got into a skiing coincidence while going off a cliff. As a end result, he used to be no longer to continue his career as a stuntman.
You'll keep in mind he used to be afraid to even meet Bonnie after their first few telephone calls as a result of he was once afraid to reveal he used a wheelchair.
Catch this night's episode of Mom on CBS at 9 p.m.
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