Thornton shared one experience he had when auditioning. “I go in for a character who’s identified as a wheelchair user, do the audition, do a call-back or or two — and then I lose the job (laughs) to an actor who doesn’t use a wheelchair. And then beyond that, hearing through the grapevine that some producer was like (in reference to why they didn’t hire Thornton): ‘Yeah, but he uses a wheelchair!’ I think there’s a perverse magnanimity — that they think they’re doing you a favor by not hiring you because they’re like: It’s going to be a really long shoot and you’ll have to be in Romania for a certain amount of time and then the project moves to the Sahara and it’s just going to be a real drag on you. They make these kinds of assumptions. So then it’s like, why did you even pretend to make the effort of being interested in seeing what this community can do?”