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        <title><![CDATA[Sia&#8217;s new movie slammed for portrayal of autism, singer blasts critics]]></title>
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						<p>Sia won&#8217;t face the music surrounding her new movie.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Cheap Thrills&#8221; singer, 44, debuted the trailer for her film, &#8220;Music,&#8221; starring Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Maddie Ziegler, on Thursday, and immediately faced criticism for casting Ziegler as a character with autism even though she&#8217;s not autistic in real life.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s a mighty shame that someone with such a colossal platform is using it to exclude disabled and neuro diverse actors from their own narratives,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TomeLevi/status/1329711328592801793" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted one fan</a>. &#8220;I’ve been a long time fan of your work, so this is really disappointing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sia <a href="https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329736604819316737" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">defended herself</a>, claiming she hired various people with disabilities and some from the LGBTQ community.</p>
<p>&#8220;I cast thirteen neuroatypical people, three trans folk, and not as f&#8211;king prostitutes or drug addicts but s as doctors, nurses and singers,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;F&#8211;king sad nobody’s even seen the dang movie. My heart has always been in the right place.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Several autistic actors, myself included, responded to these tweets. We all said we could have acted in it on short notice. These excuses are just that- excuses,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/HelenAngel/status/1329724713011122179?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted one woman</a> in response. &#8220;The fact of the matter is zero effort was made to include anyone who is actually autistic. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs&#8221;</p>
<p>Sia, however, felt differently about her casting approach.</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe you’re just a bad actor,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329738992519147521" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">responded</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;the f&#8211;king state of how sia is responding to autistic people with valid criticisms of her film&#8230;we’re all adorable and easily fetishised and fun to make movies about until we speak lmao,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/marianne_eloise/status/1329767187985412108" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted another user</a> in response to Sia&#8217;s &#8220;bad actor&#8221; claim.</p>
<p>At some point, the &#8220;Chandelier&#8221; performer had enough with the backlash and snapped, &#8220;Grrrrrrrrrr. F&#8211;kity f&#8211;k why don’t you watch my film before you judge it? FURY.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reps for Sia didn&#8217;t immediately return Page Six&#8217;s request for comment.</p>
<p>The movie centers on Music (Ziegler), a teenager with autism who has a passion for music. Hudson plays Music’s half-sister and guardian Zu, a former drug dealer, and Leslie Odom Jr. plays her friend Ebo.</p>
			
					
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