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News.com.au
21-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
10-year-old with autism ‘excluded' from NSW cross country champs
A 10-year-old boy with autism has been blocked from competing at the NSW primary school cross championships despite doing enough to qualify. 7News reports Charlie Cox made it to the North Coast Cross Country Championships and qualified for the state finals as a special needs athlete. 'We were very disappointed that Charlie was excluded,' Charlie's father Owen told 7News. Tennis Australia and Swimming Australia both have classifications for athletes with formally diagnosed autism, but Australian Athletics does not include autism within its framework. 'As such, the inclusion of an autism category for the sports of athletics and cross country are not feasible in the Representative School Sport Pathway as there are no nationally recognised benchmarks to support fair and consistent result calculation,' the NSW Department of Education said. 'Other states and territories that have made local provisions for participation do so outside the formal School Sport Australia pathway and there is no fair or consistent result calculation, nor is there a pathway to the next level of representation. 'Your concern is acknowledged and please be reassured that the NSW Department of Education remains committed to advocating for broader inclusion through national sporting bodies such as Athletics Australia.' The news comes after a Year 9 student with dwarfism was told last year he couldn't compete because of a rule from World Para Athletics that's recently been adopted by School Sport Australia. Hugo, a Year 9 student from Sydney's Northern Beaches was told he couldn't compete at national trials. Hugo has genetic disorder achondroplasia – the most common form of short-limbed dwarfism, but that hasn't stopped him running. 'I like the feeling of adrenaline. Halfway through the run, I get a feeling that I can't stop, otherwise I'll be so disappointed in myself, and I just like that feeling of running and it just makes me happy,' Hugo told 7NEWS. For years he has competed at state level, but he can no longer compete in any long-distance events because of a new rule adopted by School Sports Australia. 'It's really sad, I see the joy that Hugo gets when he's competing … there's not that many opportunities for kids with disabilities to have success and it's really sad to see that as a mother ripped away from him and without any reasons,' Hugo's mum Alicia said. 'I just don't understand why, it doesn't harm anyone else. It doesn't affect anyone; he has individual medical clearance to do it and it's just really hard to understand.' The new rule, enforced by Athletics Australia is based on medical advice relating to short-statured people running long distances.
Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Talented 10-year-old runner is BANNED from competing because he has autism
A 10-year-old boy with autism, Charlie Cox, has been excluded from the NSW Primary School Cross Country Championships. Despite qualifying for the state finals as a special needs athlete, the NSW Education Department ruled him ineligible to compete. The decision has sparked scrutiny of the state's athletics guidelines for students with disabilities. 'We were very disappointed that Charlie was excluded,' his father Owen Cox told Channel Seven. 'We are hoping that there's some type of intervention from the government. Fingers crossed things can change.' The number of autistic Australians rose by 41.8 per cent from 2018 to 2022, reaching 290,900 people or 1.1 per cent of the population, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental condition that affects how a person communicates, interacts, and experiences the world. It is recognised as a disability in Australia under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS); however, funding is restricted to only the more severe cases on the spectrum. Because autism is a spectrum, not every case is the same. While some children may be impacted by developmental delays or issues with motor skills, sensory processing, social interactions, and cognitive functions, others thrive in sport with appropriate support and accommodations. NBA player Tony Snell, NFL defender Joe Barksdale and Major League Baseball star Jim Eisenreich are some high-profile autistic athletes who have competed at the highest level. The spectrum is what has made it challenging to create an autism category. 'As such, the inclusion of an autism category for the sports of athletics and cross country are not feasible in the Representative School Sport Pathway,' the NSW Department of Education told Charlie's family. 'There are no nationally recognised benchmarks to support fair and consistent result calculation. 'Other states and territories that have made local provisions for participation do so outside the formal School Sport Australia pathway and there is no fair or consistent result calculation, nor is there a pathway to the next level of representation. 'Your concern is acknowledged and please be reassured that the NSW Department of Education remains committed to advocating for broader inclusion through national sporting bodies such as Athletics Australia.' 'He is so keen [to run],' his mother Sasha told Radio 2GB host Ben Fordham. 'He keeps asking, 'Do I get to run? Do I get to run?" 'It's heartbreaking when you have to tell him we don't know, we have to wait and see. 'But I try and digress him [to] possibly take up tennis next year, so I am already prepping him for that.' Fordham said he was surprised there is no category for ASD children given the rapid rise in Australians with the condition. 'That would make common sense, wouldn't it?' Sasha responded. 'But unfortunately it hasn't gone that way and it's not really inclusive for autistic athletes in athletics.' Fordham asked Sasha what competing meant to her son. 'He is so proud of himself. Just the pride and the self awareness and being able to encourage him to go further,' she said. 'It's really helped him as a person to grow and adapt. 'Intellectual abilities are allowed to compete. 'The fellas he was running up against will be participating there on Wednesday, so yes, they're included. 'But not Charlie, not autism, unfortunately.' Fordham said that it appeared that Athletics Australia had put Charlie's case in the 'too hard' basket. 'Is it too much to organise?' Sasha asked. 'Maybe they need to speak to other bodies and see how they administer their policies in including autism and categorising them. 'I'm not too sure, but there has to be something that can be done, surely.' Charlie has received plenty of support, with a large number of Aussies claiming his exclusion was discrimination. 'He won the race and qualified to go further, but because he has autism he is disqualified from competing? What a joke, he has autism, he is not from another planet,' one commented. 'He has earned the right to run, just let him run,' another said. Others pointed out that because of the autism spectrum it was not as simple as creating an ASD classification. 'I'm autistic, I get what they are saying. It's too much of a spectrum they haven't nailed down yet,' one Aussie posted on social media. Many commenters were united in the belief that Charlie should be allowed to run, not just excluded because there is no classification for him. 'Just because there arent any classifications for different disabilities doesn't mean they should exclude,' one follower posted. 'It is terrible that he can't compete because their [sic] is no classification for autistic athletes in the but why can he not just compete in the 'able body class' with everyone else?' asked another.
Geek Tyrant
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Krysten Ritter Teases Return as Jessica Jones as DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Season 2 Wraps Filming — GeekTyrant
Filming has officially wrapped on Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, and with that comes with the return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. She recently teased: "It's very exciting. I am very thrilled to be back in Jessica's boots. There's more story for her, and it's really exciting," Ritter told ScreenRant. She also talked about the tone of Born Again, which, as you know from the first season, is leaning into the gritty feel that made the original Netflix era so memorable. "Oh, it's gritty. It feels big, too. The crew's amazing. I've had an amazing experience. I can't say anything, but I love being with Charlie [Cox]. It was as if no time had passed. 'Like, my first day, I was looking around like, we're back… I think the fans are going to be very, very thrilled. We're doing some cool stuff." Ritter first appeared as Jessica Jones back in 2015, and quickly became a fan-favorite for her no-nonsense portrayal of the hard-drinking, reluctant hero. Showrunner Dario Scardapane confirmed the Season 2 wrap on Instagram, sharing a photo of a custom bobblehead gifted by the art department, and thanking the cast and crew, including new face Matthew Lillard. We'll find out what's in store for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 when it hits Disney+ in March 2026. Source: ScreenRant
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lee Jung-jae, Adam Scott, Noah Wyle, and the best of our Emmy Drama Actor interviews
Over the past two months of Emmy campaigning, Gold Derby has spoken with several contenders in all categories. Now with voting underway ahead of the July 15 unveiling of the nominees, we have compiled 13 interviews for stars vying for Best Drama Actor, including: Charlie Cox (Daredevil: Born Again), Jon Hamm (Your Friends and Neighbors), Aldis Hodge (Cross), Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game), Diego Luna (Andor), Zahn McClarnon (Dark Winds), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Harold Perrineau (From), Eddie Redmayne (The Day of the Jackal), Adam Scott (Severance), Billy Bob Thornton (Landman), Charlie Vickers (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), and Noah Wyle (The Pitt). Read on for highlights from each interviews and links to watch our full video Q&As. More from Gold Derby CBS, CNN, and ABC lead winners at 2025 News Emmys An 'honored' Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond movie: 'To me, he's sacred territory' Cox started playing lawyer Matt Murdock, aka the blind superhero Daredevil, back in 2015, and he's figured out his two priorities for every action scene, based on the character's superhuman abilities and his emotional primacy. 'One, be clear-minded about how emotionally relevant this scene is to Matt,' Cox explains about the Disney+ character. 'Sometimes we have a scene where he's just trying to garner information, and to get that, he needs to go through people. So make sure that the action is appropriate for that, so that he's not unnecessarily violent or brutal, because it doesn't require huge physical emotion. Then there are scenes where he's fighting someone with whom there's a history, or the person has been in some way involved in something that Matt feels very strongly against. So that fight becomes emotional, and it is more brutal, and probably more unnecessarily violent, and all those things. So to be clear and tell, in the simplest ways, the emotional story of the action.' Watch our complete interview with Charlie Cox. Hamm stars as the morally questionable Andy "Coop" Cooper, who turns to stealing from his wealthy neighbors to keep up appearances when he loses his high-paying hedge fund job on the Apple TV+ series. He says, "What I really liked about his journey in the first season was just how much it settled on him when it was looking very dire in the last few episodes where he was going to have to really kind of come-to-Jesus about what he has gotten himself into and how that not only is going to affect his life, but also the people he really truly cares about, his children, his ex-wife, his sister. The collateral damage of all of this, I think, was something that he was really confronting in the last few episodes. It's a wonderful scene with Amanda Peet, where she says you've got to fight, you can't give up. Are your kids going to be the kids whose dad is in jail for murder? If you didn't do it, figure it out. That was a really lovely, important scene, and I think it really resonated with Coop, and it really hit home. And he really had to double down on figuring this out." Watch our complete interview with Jon Hamm. For the Prime Video series, Hodge's performance as Det. Alex Cross is the perfect combination of cerebral and physical, swaggering and sensitive, and tough and gentle that the role requires. "I think every actor has to maintain independent individuality when they approach any character, right? That's the artist's process," Hodge tells Gold Derby. "So I just thought about the honest foundation of his desires, his wants. What is his current situation as a man? Where can I connect to those things personally with my own life experience? And then it becomes a really easy process from there. When you focus on the nucleus of a character's honesty, it eliminates so many other factors that would serve to only deter your creativity. So really, you come up with your own version by not even trying to come up with your own version. You don't focus on that. You just focus on the character's honesty." Watch our complete video interview with Aldis Hodge. The Emmy winner plays Gi-hun, who is seeking revenge in Season 2 after winning the game for the first season. The cast and creator behind the Netflix show joined us for an exclusive interview. He says, "For Season 1 it was really about the competitive world that we live in. For Season 2, it's more about the democratic voting system. Does it really work? Because are taking sides, grouping together, clashing against one another. So there's that added layer of political message to it. And then Season 3 will come to you with another message. And I think these social and political messages were resonant not just in Korea only, but through the entire global community. It's things that we have to deal with, with all our might together. … And I loved how there's that virtual cycle of us bringing questions to the table, and people would think about it, they would talk about it after watching Squid Game, and then those conversations will circle back to us, the creators and cast, and we can add that to our next season." Watch our complete video interview with Lee Jung-jae. The second season of the Disney+ series wasn't merely the completion of Luna's own years-long trek to tell a story of how Rogue One's Cassian Andor became a hero of the Rebellion, it was part of a greater, game-changing transformation of the overall Star Wars universe. He says, "I'm very pleased. This has been a very long journey for us, but I wouldn't change anything. I think the challenges we went through, the complexity of the production and the executing of this — we went through COVID, we went through strikes, shooting far away from home — all of that paid off because this is a show that represents me as an artist, and as audience too. It's something I would like to see as audience, and I am proud to be part of something that is connecting like the show is connecting with audiences." Read our complete interview with Diego Luna. The Hunkpapa Lakota actor stars as Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who in Season 3 is navigating the effects of moral gray areas he entered during Season 2 which have landed him in the investigative crosshairs of an FBI agent. 'Authenticity is very important to us,' McClarnon told Gold Derby. 'The books are written by Tony Hillerman, and we as Native people are just trying to add a little different perspective, kind of recontextualize the books a little bit, and bring these characters to life — real Natives bringing these characters to life.' Read our complete interview with Zahn McClarnon. The newly-announced knight and Oscar winner Oldman plays abrasive MI5 boss Jackson Lamb, the rude, crass, and often drunk department head with a bracing panache on the Apple TV+ series. "As the seasons go on and incrementally more is revealed of Jackson, you as an actor are forming a more complete picture of him. And then of course we have Season 5, and that pulls back another layer of the onion to his character and really why he is the way he is," he says about fleshing out the why behind his grouchy, ill-tempered exterior. "It works in a way as a defense mechanism. He's not gonna let you in. You're not going to really get to know him. And that really is part of his skill also, because by doing that, he has an edge over you. I mean, we've said it before; people around him are playing checkers and Jackson Lamb is playing chess." Watch our complete interview with Gary Oldman. Perrineau plays Sheriff Boyd Stevens on the MGM+ horror drama set in a decaying old ghost town in middle America that appears to be under the control of an unknown malevolent force that traps anyone who arrives. Director Jack Bender goes, 'here's what we're going to do, kiddo, we're going to have her over there and we're gonna put the camera on you, and we're gonna let it go," he explains incredulously. "That's when you have to dig in, and put images in your brain that you know you don't want to be there forever and but you have to," he says. "That's the great part of it, and if I can let it happen, then I've gotten something out of it. And then, therefore, hopefully, the audience did too. I've gone to a new place in my own self where I can allow this to be, and don't have to be scared of it or anything like that. It was pretty wild shooting it," he recalls. Watch our complete interview with Harold Perrineau. The Oscar winner plays the title character for the Peacock series. By day, he is a quiet assassin, exacting and economical with his kills, a man of few words and a master of disguises. By night, he returns home to his other life in Spain, as Charles Calthrop, who is married to Nuria (Úrsula Corberó) and father to their son Carlito. "The thing that I found most challenging was ... there's something that is incredibly kind of refined and economic and ruthless about him, but that economy, weirdly, takes quite a lot of work," he says. "I'm the most flappable person imaginable and this character is deeply unflappable. So it was weird because it meant that I had to prep. I like prep anyway, but I had to prep, like, I would say fivefold to how I would normally, just on silly things. I remember there's a moment in the opening scene [in] the opening episode when I sort of dismantle this suitcase and turn it into a sniper's rifle, and I wanted it to be like a dance. And I wanted it to have that sort of cathartic satisfaction of everything fitting exactly in its right place. It took me weeks. I would just put classical music on I was sitting in the in the bedroom at the hotel I was staying at and just go over and over, trying to make it as fluid as possible. But that economy was the hardest thing." Watch our complete interview with Eddie Redmayne. The second season of the Apple TV+ series is about a near-future, retro-tinged dystopia where people could separate their work selves from their personal lives. The team behind the show, including Scott, joined our recent group discussion, where she discussed her approach to playing the innie and outie versions of her character. On playing both versions in the same scene, he says, "It was something that had been talked about all season and that I was honestly dreading because it sounded hard, and it sounded like something that I could screw up any number of ways. Shooting it was something I was freaked out about. We started really workshopping and going through it and massaging it pretty early on. Dan and the writers were changing it as we went. When we got on the set, we started really going through it with a fine-tooth comb and trying to figure out exactly what the conversation should be. We had to start shooting it on a Monday morning and we were changing it right up until, what, Friday night? And then we had to stop because I had to memorize it at some point." Watch our complete interview with Adam Scott. Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, an abrasive straight-shooter petroleum landman who takes charge of the lucrative and often precarious oilfields of West Texas for M-Tex, a giant oil corporation, for the Paramount+ drama. "I've had a lot of life experience. I've been around some pretty weird things. So you just kind of draw on those. If you've got a pillowcase over your head and people are dumping gasoline on you, it's not hard to imagine if somebody struck a match, even though it's not gasoline. It's claustrophobic. So the situation itself kind of puts you in the frame of mind," the recent Golden Globe nominee and past Oscar winner explains, referring to scenes in the season premiere and finale where the titular landman is tied to a chair and is being beaten while a pillowcase covers his head. Listen to our complete interview with Billy Bob Thornton. Vickers explains that he shot several episodes of the Prime Video Season 1 without knowing that his character, Halbrand, was actually the dark lord Sauron in disguise. And for Season 2, he also plays Sauron's new form called Annatar. Halbrand feels distinctly human, a 'low man' who works with his hands. By contrast, Annatar is ethereal, regal, and possesses a calm command of any room he enters. 'He's a Maia, which means basically he's a demigod,' explains Vickers, 'So you're going from playing a regular guy to this guy that is larger than life. So I had to learn a whole new way of moving.' Within the actor's physicality is a simmering power that Annatar dare not show. 'He's a lot more still and a lot more controlled and contained,' says Vickers, 'it is quite fun to play with the potential of this energy that is within him.' Watch our complete interview with Charlie Vickers. The star, executive producer, writer, and director plays Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch. His team at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center would go on to have a stressful, chaotic day, capped off with a mass casualty incident. He says, "The line of demarcation in healthcare can be drawn in 2020 before COVID, and we're living in the A.D. of it all. And I think, in some ways, that reset the clock on what modern healthcare looks like, and that became the focus of the show. How do we do a show that's more practitioner-centric, less patient-centric, and has a fidelity not just to terminology and to procedure but to the emotional truth of the compounding aggregate experiences that practitioners shoulder and don't have a lot of opportunity to offload?" Read our complete interview with Noah Wyle. Best of Gold Derby Kathy Bates, Minha Kim, Elisabeth Moss, and the best of our Emmy Drama Actress interviews Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2 Adam Brody, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and the best of our Emmy Comedy Actor interviews Click here to read the full article.
Geek Girl Authority
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
NYCC 2025: Check Out the First Wave of Star-Studded Guests
Highlights ReedPop shared the first wave of guests for NYCC 2025. The star-studded lineup includes Marvel stars Simu Liu, Charlie Cox and Tatiana Maslany, as well as famed author George R.R. Martin and the Critical Role cast. Critical Role Tickets for the four-day October convention are officially on sale to the general public. NYCC 2025 New York Comic Con is shaping up to be the place to hang out this fall. ReedPop, the producer behind NYCC, unveiled the official guest lineup for this year's convention. Dubbed as the first wave, these guests run the gamut of leading talent in entertainment, comic books, authors and voice actors. RELATED: Everything Coming to Netflix in July 2025 Entertainment So, who can we expect to pop up at NYCC 2025? Getting top billing in the entertainment category are James McAvoy ( X-Men ), Nicholas Hoult ( Superman , Nosferatu ), Elliot Page ( X-Men , The Umbrella Academy ), Simu Liu ( Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ), Tatiana Maslany ( She-Hulk: Attorney at Law , Orphan Black ), Martin Sheen ( Good Omens ) and Charlie Cox ( Daredevil: Born Again ). Other prominent performers appearing at the con include Bryce Dallas Howard, Simon Pegg, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, Mike Colter, Ming-Na Wen, Clark Gregg, Chloe Bennet ( Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reunion, y'all), Hamish Linklater, Deborah Ann Woll, Breckin Meyer, Matthew Senreich, Seth Green (DuJour reunion with Meyer, anyone?), Steve Burns, Wayne Brady, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Peter Weller and Nancy Allen. RELATED: NYCC 2024: Shrinking Gets Season 3 Renewal at Apple TV+ Comic Creators, Writers and Voice Actors As for the other categories, A Song of Ice and Fire scribe George R.R. Martin is on the docket. Tomi Adeyemi, author of the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, will appear at NYCC 2025. Paramount is adapting her novel Children of Blood and Bone into a film, slated to hit the big screen in 2027. Legendary Star Trek actor George Takei, Divergent author Veronica Roth and horror master R.L. Stine are also among the impressive list of comic creators and authors. Additionally, the Critical Role cast is stopping by the convention. Other voice talent includes Troy Baker ( The Last of Us ), Dante Basco ( Avatar: The Last Airbender ), Jennifer Hale ( Baldur's Gate , X-Men '97 ) and Jodi Benson ( The Little Mermaid ). NYCC runs October 9-12, 2025, at the Javits Center. Tickets are now on sale to the general public. Before you go, check out the full lineup below. Presented in FantastiVision: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Final Trailer Arrives Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
