Four project stakeholders look back on this unique experience
Several members of the APF France Handicap 21 who participated in the sketches returned, for us, to this unique experience.
Laure: “We wanted the final result to be clean and professional, so that the message gets across”
Jocelyne, with multiple disabilities, and Laure, 42, affected by an invisible disability, played together in one of the eight sketches. “In this scenario, my character parks in a priority space to get analysis results from a laboratory; but there, the character of Jocelyne comes to see me,” explains Laure. “Yes, I'm showing up, so I'm grumbling a little, because I don't see his handicap! », says Jocelyne. “And Laure then answers me: “It’s not because it’s not visible that I’m not disabled!”. » For Laure, one of the interests of the videos is “that they are quite realistic, despite the fact that it was filmed with humor”. “We wanted the end result to be clean and professional, so that the message came across clearly. »
Gauthier: “Some able-bodied people do not address people with disabilities in the same way”
In real life, Gauthier, 48 years old, from Dijon, has cerebral palsy after being knocked down. In the sketch in which he plays, he is confronted with a doctor who speaks to a caregiver instead of speaking directly to him. During our interview last Tuesday, permanently prevented from being able to express himself other than with speech synthesis software, Gauthier explained “that certain able-bodied people do not address themselves in the same way” to people in situations disabled, who, like him, cannot speak easily. “We still too often take them for people with intellectual disabilities, when that is not the case. »
Jeff: “The videos offer a look at the difficulties that we can encounter and that we make fun of”
Jeff, 56, from Plombières-lès-Dijon, in a wheelchair, played the role of the doctor with Gauthier. “The latter believes that the character played by Gauthier is a little deaf and that he is a little stupid, because he does not speak… But, that is not the case! The doctor I play understands nothing about Gauthier's disability. » Also, for Jeff, through this sketch, and the seven others, “the videos offer a look at the difficulties that we can encounter and that we make fun of”.
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