‘People have outdated views about disabled performers’: Line of Duty’s Tommy Jessop on acting with

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He’s been called ‘phenomenal’ by Mark Rylance, acted alongside Vicky McClure, played Hamlet, and taken part in critically acclaimed shorts, but Tommy Jessop believes there’s still much progress to be made in how the film industry treats disabled actors.

Tommy Jessop was 22 when he ...