FOr pretty much, Chris McCcausland kept back to return the offer to make a warrant to come. You don’t get it from this year. “I have terrified:” They said. “I don’t mind stretching, but I have to know that something is possible.” And closely seemed impossible. CEW since their first few years of 20, mcCausland has passed the adolescents of adolescents and the firefighters toward mosah piti rier than pay any attene the salon dance. So he had no idea what a burying American or paved pace looks like too. For some, strictly is inevitable for the past 20 years, but McCausland, 47, a fountain of the house is sample as you are listening to hearing the tune’s tune has been in the night of kick off.
Why did he decide to embrace the sequine right now? “Even as a mateudian, I’m – if I like it or not – representative of another people group, people who are blind people and people who are undertaken.” It was so nervous you it the First show that may even eat. But he felt as an opportunity and privilege, he says. “When weigh, and you stop thinking about yourself, and the fact that you are billing your pants, becomes more benefit.”
Is proud to be the first blind contest of the show. “I think, if I say no one again, and find someone else that is blind, then I will never do it.” But he felt as a lot was in play. “I don’t mind being the ass to joke, and if something goes for me, you don’t have a weight and no weight and no shows and it’s not a disaster.” The Idea: “It’s trying for it is done so much. You have to do it on the mean significantly to represent in a good way and I just thought that it would be possible.”
How’s wrong – McCaUSland has been brilliant. Since the beginning, his plants has been superior and the blackpool store just a week ago, scored two 10 for their American Link. Fully prevents each performance and while it cannot be the best dancer of the remaining stems, the companies of bets have it as the preferred of winning. “I surprised me how much someone”, says with a laugh. But it has been grueling. When we meet in the cafe in the website elstracts strictly studies, says he “don’t remember the last time I don’t feel tired.”
It was a difficult year for the show, with the abuse assignments in the summer trials. “I don’t want to mention the experience of her, why is this stressful:” says mccusland. “I guess it’s worked well for the majority basis of people who have done it but a lot of people had a problem and I am sure it is safe.” It says producers have gone “out of their way” to do better things that they have in the past – this includes a member of the production now on the test.
Not having a visual frame for Dance Dance Dance, the partner will dive mccausland, they had deducted descriptions, metadors and physically their body. “Sometimes it has just yank my arms where she wants.” When the pair made the dable the dable this weekend the dramatic dancing, he has taken Bushwell two days just to describe. “I was like:” I’m sure this is right? You don’t feel like no one should be like that. “” It was useful, says mccausland, to come with michial pictures to perfect their posture. “I found the best to do it is pretend you need to go to the toilet and keep your hills.”
The part of the motoring teaching methods, there are not too many adjustments to the show. First, producers asked MMCAUSLAND if you have been preferred to quiet for as long as he could feel where bushwell was in relation to him but he said. “I am a commodian, part of the reason that you are in how much it is to create a good atmosphere.” Laugh and adds: “I am a bastard need.”
Has been excited with the support that has received from viewers. “My attitude was: I have never seen the show, but take seriously and put 100% in it.” The remaining small, says, they are “better than we can do is to log in with people – that has been our purpose, me and the best I can.” He has paid perfectly, I’ll put you in while you also carried a bordy edge to the living transmission. After his first dance, a cha-cha-cha-cha-will have left the shiny ludicry of all the show. The dancing, he was “fooling is a nonsense. It is like someone is sucked all the entertainment off and replaced with the terms and conditions.”
The mood has been a constant in mccaousland’s life. He was the treated camp, pigmentosa, pigmentosa, which affected his mother and grandmother, and mccaousland and his sister of 11 years not inherit the genre). As a child, you remember trying if you had – to say that he had always seen, but the conception could mean gradually deteriorate. “It’s just it ever a thing,” he says. The second year of the primary school, saw that while as long as the Church in class, could not be part of. It felt as if the loss of view was standing on him? “Not. It’s so slow that is like a frog in boiling water – not noticed.” He carried many frictions, and he is he says it’s “it’s never sad.”
He grew up in a Liverpool Suturb – Although today, his accent is in a grade of almost three decades in the south. Her displays the alimation A-level employer to the university, and he has finished studying software engineering in Kingston, who has already a friend. “One were frightened of this great new ambients when you can’t look good as a sight of safety.” Then, his eyesight. “There is a lot of denial and resistance to her , especially when you are in your territories and your first 20 years. Is always thinking that you can do yesterday you could do yesterday you can see when you can not see you as a welcome aid as a white cane. “When you are 20, 21, you are embarrassed, think May everyone look at you. There are many shame. ‘
Assumed comedy. “I wouldn’t know in time but I think was another denial form. I have never been blinded on the stage and I was likely to be” normal “.” It was partially about The challenge preconceptions – I didn’t mean to only jokes about being blind-but even on him I don’t feel very comfortable with who it was. “I’ve always thought, if I was in the audience and I came to the stage, thoughts: ‘Oh was it will be 20 minutes of blind jokes.’ What’s why I have never talked to this – I always try to make them forget and probably do me forget. “
After the university, working as a computer programmer became difficult because of their deteriorated view. Was unemployed for a while, then has a job in a call center. The end, they challenged to write a five-minute comedy imposes. “It was never to do with a career. I just wanted to give a go like a bit of a diary,” he says. “I had no performance skills, what I’ve never had drama. My first he was as monotone. But I had enough laugh and I’ve been in. Then I get a hobby, you’ll meet a people and there is a community. It was adrenaline and something to wait. “
After being migging treating, mccausland has been invited to be the apolle in 2018. He could not be the panel’s battle on TV and the highest profile gigeons that had hoped. I was trying to put it on sample as a week and 8 from 10 cats, but failure. Why don’t they book it? “It’s a risk with any comedian,” he says. “No matter if you can do sting you? Can you be fun on topical things?” McCaUSland, there were considered – and I think they were concerned with making the show’s changes. But they could have been small adjustments – change a round picture to a point of audio, for example. These days, say, shows are much more open to do them.
Also shipped offers to be on the shows that only features other disabled people. “I spent every four years, or it was, every time paralyms you are around. They’ll be like:” We had this idea to put all these disabled in this comedy sample. We had the idea of sending all of these disabled parts together. ‘I always thought the segregation and not integration. It can fit these spectaci type, but each fame to be very brave-life. “He thinks progress is done. “Not:” Let’s get in a way of disabled people “.” And, as long as she is on the representation of the blind people and partially seeing someone blind in tight. It’s good that people can see someone as herself, but our problem is not ourselves; our problem is the expectations of all of us. “
McCaush had a few roles of acting, including in children also show me! and the drama of jimmy mcgouver moving. As to the difficult subject if the actors should be caught in disabled, says, “I don’t think it is cut and dry. The problem is not disabled that they make the disabled people? ‘, The problem needs to be more in disability. “Also now, says, usually” someone only only use a sedia stap if that is that story. We need to get to the point where someone has a script and “Well they can’t use a wheelchair? Don’t mention the script, but why can’t this person be deaf?” “This has said, adds with a laugh, he He wrote and has been seasoned in a Christmas film by the sky, with reading tractions, in which “all” all the point is a guy’s captured. I wrote that because I thought it would be funny, but I created this job for myself. “
It is busy right now – it’s on a huge tour: “and it goes down until I am dead.” The crown this year, hope I triumph mcciacous in tight.
It really was only in the last 10 years or so says, “I am likely to comfort you in my skin and happy to be me.” It is parting many old, and have more experience of life, but he has also had to have darling of his daughter. “I think you really change your perspective in life and self”, it says. Avu was quite pragmatically on the impact of the loss of view on their life ,, you are not to decide to find something else to do. The concern about the very thing, and there is a lot of my wife caught, a great deal of the logistics. “But I love the work, sake his own voice – an authenticity that has gone a long to talk to strict fan. “You seem to try to have a person or put yourself in a certain way, or even imitate other people. I had a moment where I’m just a bit of installed in essay, and what did he work. ‘