Audiences are programmed to see abled actors as wheelchair users far more than actual disabled people.

Most often you see disabled women in romantic films, with the story’s focus on how an abled man will find the ability to love a woman with a disability.

“We knew how much it would mean to not just people who use wheelchairs, but for anyone who’s differently abled, to see this.”

The audience is always meant to identify with the abled character, not the disabled one.

She said she wanted to help those who were "financially excluded or differently abled".