“Degrassi: The Next Generation” writer James Hurst say Drake threatened legal action if his character was not taken out of his wheelchair on the show.
“I was very passionate about it, and I said, ‘Aubrey, there’s some kid somewhere in a wheelchair, who’s completely ignored, who’s never on television, never gets represented. I need you to represent this person. You’re the coolest kid on the show, and you can say there’s nothing wrong with being in a wheelchair.’”06:48
“There was always a conversation: ‘Is there a surgery that Jimmy can have? Can we somehow get him out of this?’” Stefan Brogren, who played Spike, said. “The idea was played with a lot. In the end, we started having him getting up on his feet and walking with crutches.”“I think struggled, just physically with having to all of a sudden do everything confined to a chair. That was really hard for him,” Lauren Collins, who played Paige, said.
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