Woke actors’ union ridiculed for moaning Quasimodo is NOT played by disabled person in new Hunchback of Notre Dame show

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A WOKE actors’ union has been ridiculed for moaning Quasimodo is not played by a disabled person in a Hunchback of Notre Dame show.

Equity tore into the West End production after rising star Ben Joyce, 24, was picked for the lead.

bttfmusical/instagramBen Joyce has been cast as Quasimodo in a Hunchback of Notre Dame show[/caption]

Tragic hero Quasimodo is blind in one eye, deaf and has a hunchback — sparking questions over who the union thinks should play him.

Equity says of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert: “There is a real and significant issue of casting a non-physically disabled performer in the role of a physically disabled character.”

It was mocked online and reminded acting is pretending to be someone else.

Charlie Howarth tweeted: “Do you think the casting call should have been for ‘hideous, hunchback disabled people’?

“If so, do you really think this would have done much for disabled people?”

Another wrote: “Jesus wept, so you wanted to find an actual hump-backed person with a speech impediment to play the character?”

Top actors including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton have played Quasimodo on screen.

Responding to Equity, comic writer and anti-woke activist Graham Linehan wrote: “You f idiots.”

Sir Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton have played Quasimodo on screenAlamy

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