‘We’re Too Good For This’ Director, Cast on Playing Deaf, Disabled Drug Dealers – London Film Festival

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‘We’re Too Good For This’ Director, Cast on Playing Deaf, Disabled Drug Dealers – London Film Festival
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When a friend told director, writer and actor Missy Malek about a real-life group of disabled drug dealers operating in London, Malek instantly knew she had the makings of a film. “The second…

When a friend told director, writer and actor Missy Malek about a real-life group of disabled drug dealers operating in London, Malek instantly knew she had the makings of a film.

“I think it’s so important that we still reference disability but it’s not the whole plotline,” says Day, who has cerebral palsy. “There’s a whole other story going on, so that’s what drew me [when] reading the script and why I wanted to get involved.” “We’re Too Good For This” comes at a time of renewed focus on representation of the deaf and disabled community in films and television, partly due to screenwriter Jack Thorne’s passionate speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, in which he said: “TV has failed disabled people. Utterly and totally.”

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