((PKG)) C TALENT
((TRT: 05:48))
((Banner: Actors with Disabilities))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 2 female; 2 male))
((NATS /SOTs))
((Video clip / Courtesy: ABC Studios-20th
Century Fox Television-Silver and Gold
Productions-The Detective Agency /
"Speechless"))
Are you from California? I love your accent.
I am totally from Cali.
So, in England that’s like exotic and sexy?
Very much so.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
I auditioned for a big role. I found out that I booked
that big role which was just incredible. And I went to
a fitting and they asked me to try on a bikini and
obviously I have an invisible disability until you, kind
of, see it.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
So, I put on the low-rise bikini that they gave me. And
then the next day, I received an email telling me that I
did not have the role anymore because my ileostomy
and the bag, the prosthetic bag attached to me, was
too unsightly for the screen and it’s going to be too
off-putting to the audience.
((Photos / Courtesy: Keely Cat-Wells))
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
It started when I was training in college. And I just
started to feel sick and then I started to be physically
sick and then I couldn’t even drink water. And I just
had this excruciating pain, stomach pain. I had eight
major operations until I had an operation that
eventually saved and changed my life completely.
They realized that it was just my large colon that just
was not functioning properly at all and because of all
of the surgeries I’ve had, there was just no salvaging
the colon. So, what they did was they placed an
ileostomy, which is where a portion of your small
intestine basically comes out of your stomach and you
wear a prosthetic device for the rest of your life.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
If they just gave me a high-waisted bikini, you
wouldn’t be able to see it. So, they could’ve made a
very small adaptation, but they just chose not to.
Why do you think Chadwick Boseman kept his
disability a secret for four years? How different would
his career be if he told people he had cancer?
((NATS/SOTs)
((Video clip Agency reel / Courtesy: C Talent
Agency))
Hi.
Hi.
My name is Ariana.
C J Jones
Miracle Pelayo
Erica Chirino signing, Erika.
I’m Skyler Davenport.
Paul Ford.
I’m represented by C Talent.
By C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent Management.
By C Talent.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
I decided to start C Talent as soon as I lost that role
and saw that the accessibility and people with
disabilities are so underrepresented.
((Miracle Pelayo, Actress, C Talent))
When we are faced with challenges in life, it could
either make you or break you. Now that I am older, I
am proud to say that I can handle my disability with
even more grace.
((NATS/SOTs: Miracle Pelayo and Alexa))
Alexa, open Tommy Hilfiger adaptive.
Okay. Would you like to see clothing options?
Yes.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TV ad clip / Courtesy: Tommy Hilfiger))
INCLUSIVE
BY DESIGN
((Miracle Pelayo, Actress, C Talent))
I have cerebral palsy and that comes with being born
premature. I was actually bit with the theater bug
when I was 12 years old. My parents took me to go
see the Miracle Worker on my 12th birthday. And
what started everything was the girl that was playing
Helen Keller was able bodied and she was playing a
disabled character. I turned to my dad and I said,
“Dad, I want to do that but I want to show people that I
can do this no matter if I am in my wheelchair or if I
am in my walker.” My very first big project was
Nickelodeon’s Bella and the Bulldogs.
((NATS/SOT: Miracle Pelayo))
((Video clip / Courtesy: Nickelodeon Network /
"Bella and the Bulldogs"))
Why doesn’t he just cancel Christmas while he’s at it?
And I became the first actress in a wheelchair to be
on a kids’ TV show in Nickelodeon history.
You’re the one who’s going to need a wash. This is
for Tex Fest.
((Skyler Davenport, Actress, C Talent))
In 2012, I had a stroke. I am visually impaired. I am
legally blind, can’t drive. You wouldn’t know it. I am
afraid they won’t hire me if they know.
And did that happen?
No, I actually, I just got done on a feature film, playing
a lead where the character is visually impaired. So,
there you go! I’ve never fired so many gunshots in
my life, which is a good thing.
((Video clip / Courtesy: Paul Ford))
You’re asking me if I’m a mob boss. No, I’m not. I’m
in construction. You’re asking me if I killed my wife.
No.
((Text on screen: ACQUITTED IN FIRST WIFE’S
MURDER IN 1997 DUE TO MISSING WITNESS))
((Paul Ford, Actor, C Talent))
I have a disability called “osteogenesis imperfecta,”
which is a lack of collagen or deformed collagen that
builds around the bone. Basically, you name it, I
broke it.
((Paul Ford, Actor, C Talent))
I mean, it’s the same in any industry that you are in.
If you’re a disabled person, especially when you are
three-foot-eight [112 cm] and you don’t fit the norm. I
mean, when people, even to this day, when people
look at for someone disabled, they want someone
who’s not, doesn’t look disabled, like oh, you wouldn’t
know them if you did a shot from here on up. You
wouldn’t know they were a disabled person. That’s
what they are looking for because they want to like
slowly bring it in. But I work harder than the average
person and I can overcome anything you’ve got. I
mean, I did a film where I was climbing a mountain,
because the “cabin” they had me sitting in, yes, it was
a horror film, was up a hill and so, there was no way a
chair was going to get up there but I got up there to
make the shot.
((NATS))
((Scott Rosendall, Actor, C Talent))
We have about two percent of roles being of disability.
So, if we represent anywhere from 13 to 25 percent of
the population and we are only seen two percent of
the time, that’s a problem. Of those two percent, 95
percent go to able-bodied actors.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
The great benefit of having a company that just solely
represents people with disabilities, it makes us, our
community, of importance. It brings a form of
credibility to people with disabilities.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TRT: 05:48))
((Banner: Actors with Disabilities))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 2 female; 2 male))
((NATS /SOTs))
((Video clip / Courtesy: ABC Studios-20th
Century Fox Television-Silver and Gold
Productions-The Detective Agency /
"Speechless"))
Are you from California? I love your accent.
I am totally from Cali.
So, in England that’s like exotic and sexy?
Very much so.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
I auditioned for a big role. I found out that I booked
that big role which was just incredible. And I went to
a fitting and they asked me to try on a bikini and
obviously I have an invisible disability until you, kind
of, see it.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
So, I put on the low-rise bikini that they gave me. And
then the next day, I received an email telling me that I
did not have the role anymore because my ileostomy
and the bag, the prosthetic bag attached to me, was
too unsightly for the screen and it’s going to be too
off-putting to the audience.
((Photos / Courtesy: Keely Cat-Wells))
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
It started when I was training in college. And I just
started to feel sick and then I started to be physically
sick and then I couldn’t even drink water. And I just
had this excruciating pain, stomach pain. I had eight
major operations until I had an operation that
eventually saved and changed my life completely.
They realized that it was just my large colon that just
was not functioning properly at all and because of all
of the surgeries I’ve had, there was just no salvaging
the colon. So, what they did was they placed an
ileostomy, which is where a portion of your small
intestine basically comes out of your stomach and you
wear a prosthetic device for the rest of your life.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
If they just gave me a high-waisted bikini, you
wouldn’t be able to see it. So, they could’ve made a
very small adaptation, but they just chose not to.
Why do you think Chadwick Boseman kept his
disability a secret for four years? How different would
his career be if he told people he had cancer?
((NATS/SOTs)
((Video clip Agency reel / Courtesy: C Talent
Agency))
Hi.
Hi.
My name is Ariana.
C J Jones
Miracle Pelayo
Erica Chirino signing, Erika.
I’m Skyler Davenport.
Paul Ford.
I’m represented by C Talent.
By C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent.
C Talent Management.
By C Talent.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
I decided to start C Talent as soon as I lost that role
and saw that the accessibility and people with
disabilities are so underrepresented.
((Miracle Pelayo, Actress, C Talent))
When we are faced with challenges in life, it could
either make you or break you. Now that I am older, I
am proud to say that I can handle my disability with
even more grace.
((NATS/SOTs: Miracle Pelayo and Alexa))
Alexa, open Tommy Hilfiger adaptive.
Okay. Would you like to see clothing options?
Yes.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TV ad clip / Courtesy: Tommy Hilfiger))
INCLUSIVE
BY DESIGN
((Miracle Pelayo, Actress, C Talent))
I have cerebral palsy and that comes with being born
premature. I was actually bit with the theater bug
when I was 12 years old. My parents took me to go
see the Miracle Worker on my 12th birthday. And
what started everything was the girl that was playing
Helen Keller was able bodied and she was playing a
disabled character. I turned to my dad and I said,
“Dad, I want to do that but I want to show people that I
can do this no matter if I am in my wheelchair or if I
am in my walker.” My very first big project was
Nickelodeon’s Bella and the Bulldogs.
((NATS/SOT: Miracle Pelayo))
((Video clip / Courtesy: Nickelodeon Network /
"Bella and the Bulldogs"))
Why doesn’t he just cancel Christmas while he’s at it?
And I became the first actress in a wheelchair to be
on a kids’ TV show in Nickelodeon history.
You’re the one who’s going to need a wash. This is
for Tex Fest.
((Skyler Davenport, Actress, C Talent))
In 2012, I had a stroke. I am visually impaired. I am
legally blind, can’t drive. You wouldn’t know it. I am
afraid they won’t hire me if they know.
And did that happen?
No, I actually, I just got done on a feature film, playing
a lead where the character is visually impaired. So,
there you go! I’ve never fired so many gunshots in
my life, which is a good thing.
((Video clip / Courtesy: Paul Ford))
You’re asking me if I’m a mob boss. No, I’m not. I’m
in construction. You’re asking me if I killed my wife.
No.
((Text on screen: ACQUITTED IN FIRST WIFE’S
MURDER IN 1997 DUE TO MISSING WITNESS))
((Paul Ford, Actor, C Talent))
I have a disability called “osteogenesis imperfecta,”
which is a lack of collagen or deformed collagen that
builds around the bone. Basically, you name it, I
broke it.
((Paul Ford, Actor, C Talent))
I mean, it’s the same in any industry that you are in.
If you’re a disabled person, especially when you are
three-foot-eight [112 cm] and you don’t fit the norm. I
mean, when people, even to this day, when people
look at for someone disabled, they want someone
who’s not, doesn’t look disabled, like oh, you wouldn’t
know them if you did a shot from here on up. You
wouldn’t know they were a disabled person. That’s
what they are looking for because they want to like
slowly bring it in. But I work harder than the average
person and I can overcome anything you’ve got. I
mean, I did a film where I was climbing a mountain,
because the “cabin” they had me sitting in, yes, it was
a horror film, was up a hill and so, there was no way a
chair was going to get up there but I got up there to
make the shot.
((NATS))
((Scott Rosendall, Actor, C Talent))
We have about two percent of roles being of disability.
So, if we represent anywhere from 13 to 25 percent of
the population and we are only seen two percent of
the time, that’s a problem. Of those two percent, 95
percent go to able-bodied actors.
((Keely Cat-Wells, Founder, C Talent))
The great benefit of having a company that just solely
represents people with disabilities, it makes us, our
community, of importance. It brings a form of
credibility to people with disabilities.
((NATS/MUSIC))
