EXCLUSIVE: Dylan O’Brien (upcoming
Twinless) is set to star alongside Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo in
Being Heumann,
Apple‘s adaptation of the bestselling memoir from disability activist Judy Heumann.
In the film from
CODA Oscar winner Siân Heder, O’Brien will play Evan White, one of the few reporters covering the San Francisco disability rights protests at the heart of the story. Madeley plays the title role, as previously announced, with Ruffalo playing Joseph Califano, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter, who was initially reluctant to sign off on civil rights legislation affecting the disabled community.
Being Heumann follows Heumann as she leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal Building, kicking off a 28-day sit-in in 1977. The protestors quickly form a tightly bound community, refusing to leave until the government enforces section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which required all federal spaces to become accessible.
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