{"id":1043,"date":"2021-02-15T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:41:33","slug":"sia-my-heart-has-always-been-in-the-right-place-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Sia: ‘My heart has always been in the right place’ – Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The 45-year-old star has faced a huge backlash over her film because she cast Maddie Ziegler in the titular role of an autistic teenager, instead of someone neuroatypical, but she strongly believed before the criticism that she\u2019d researched the project and represented the condition well.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI wasn\u2019t able to talk to everybody that\u2019s on the spectrum. So I thought I had done a really amazing job. I thought I had done thorough research, and it turned out there\u2019s a whole lot of people that want the exact opposite.\u201d
The \u2018Chandelier\u2019 hitmaker initially cast an actor with autism but the role proved too stressful for her so she brought her frequent collaborator into the project instead.<\/p>\n

She told Sunday Times Culture magazine: \u201cI got Maddie back on board. I\u2019ve learnt I\u2019m ableist. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd while I may have spoken to 20 factions of the autism community, I didn\u2019t speak to another 20 factions. I actually didn\u2019t even know the other 20 existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sia has defended her decision to cast Maddie in the film on multiple occasions and previously insisted it was more “compassionate\u201d to hire her than an autistic actress.<\/p>\n

She tweeted: “I did try. It felt more compassionate to use Maddie. That was my call…<\/p>\n

“I cast thirteen neuroatypical people, three trans folk, and not as f****** prostitutes or drug addicts but s as doctors, nurses and singers. F****** sad nobody\u2019s even seen the dang movie. My heart has always been in the right place.(sic)”<\/p>\n

And Sia also insisted she simply couldn’t work without Maddie.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI realised it wasn\u2019t ableism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it is ableism I guess as well, but it\u2019s actually nepotism because I can\u2019t do a project without her. I don\u2019t want to. I wouldn\u2019t make art if it didn\u2019t include her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maddie – who has starred in many of Sia’s music videos, including the promos for ‘Elastic Heart’ and ‘Chandelier’ – feared people would think she was \u201cmaking fun\u201d of autistic people.<\/p>\n

Sia insisted: \u201cI bold-facedly said, \u2018I won\u2019t let that happen.'”<\/p>\n

However, she realised she cannot “protect” her from the criticism.<\/p>\n

The ‘Unstoppable’ hitmaker added: \u201cLast week, I realised I couldn\u2019t really protect her from that, which I thought I could. We sent it off to the Child Mind Institute and she received 100 per cent as performance accuracy. I realise that there are some things I can\u2019t protect her from as much as I try.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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