Singer Sia reveals autism spectrum prognosis two years after ‘Music’ film backlash
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By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Two years after her film “Music” courted controversy for misrepresenting people with autism, singer-songwriter Sia has revealed that she is “on the spectrum” and in “recovery mode”.
The Australian musician was generally known as out for casting a neurotypical actor — her frequent collaborator Maddie Ziegler — as a nonverbal autistic teenage girl in her attribute directorial debut “Music” in 2021.
During a present episode of Rob Has a Podcast, Sia talked about she has been able to develop into herself solely inside the ultimate two years.
“I’m on the spectrum and I’m in recovery and whatever. For 45 years, I was like, ‘I’ve got to go put my human suit on’. And only in the last two years have I become fully, fully myself,” the “Chandelier” hitmaker talked about.
She moreover talked about no person can “love you when you’re filled with secrets and living in shame.”
“And then we finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, and everybody laughs along with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time in our lives, and we feel seen for the first time in our lives for who we actually are, and then we can start going out into the world and just operating as humans and human beings with hearts and not pretending to be anything,” she added.
“Music” adopted a newly sober girl named Zu, carried out by Kate Hudson, who turns into the guardian of her half-sister Music (Ziegler), a teenage girl on the autism spectrum.
At the time of the controversy, Sia had hit once more at critics, saying the story was impressed by her “neuro-atypical friend” who “found it too stressful being non-verbal, and I made this movie with nothing but love for him and his mother”.
She later equipped an apology, together with the scenes in question in “Music” could possibly be far from future screenings.
LOS ANGELES: Two years after her film “Music” courted controversy for misrepresenting people with autism, singer-songwriter Sia has revealed that she is “on the spectrum” and in “recovery mode”.
The Australian musician was generally known as out for casting a neurotypical actor — her frequent collaborator Maddie Ziegler — as a nonverbal autistic teenage girl in her attribute directorial debut “Music” in 2021.
During a present episode of Rob Has a Podcast, Sia talked about she has been able to develop into herself solely inside the ultimate two years.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“I’m on the spectrum and I’m in recovery and whatever. For 45 years, I was like, ‘I’ve got to go put my human suit on’. And only in the last two years have I become fully, fully myself,” the “Chandelier” hitmaker talked about.
She moreover talked about no person can “love you when you’re filled with secrets and living in shame.”
“And then we finally sit in a room full of strangers and tell them our deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, and everybody laughs along with us, and we don’t feel like pieces of trash for the first time in our lives, and we feel seen for the first time in our lives for who we actually are, and then we can start going out into the world and just operating as humans and human beings with hearts and not pretending to be anything,” she added.
“Music” adopted a newly sober girl named Zu, carried out by Kate Hudson, who turns into the guardian of her half-sister Music (Ziegler), a teenage girl on the autism spectrum.
At the time of the controversy, Sia had hit once more at critics, saying the story was impressed by her “neuro-atypical friend” who “found it too stressful being non-verbal, and I made this movie with nothing but love for him and his mother”.
She later equipped an apology, together with the scenes in question in “Music” could possibly be far from future screenings.
