Sigourney Weaver Finds Her Inner Autism

Sigourney Weaver plays a woman with autism in the new movie “Snow Cake.”
In which she plays a middle-aged mum with autism.

Working on the film has inspired the Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver to advocate for autistic adults.

Sigourney Weaver had to learn about life with autism, and after she spent a year with people across the vast spectrum of the condition Sigourney Weaver found she hardly needed to step out of her own two shoes.
She said “What I ended up doing, in retrospect, was finding the autistic person in myself,” says the actress.
And she said that “I mean, that’s one thing you see very quickly, is we’re all on the spectrum. We all have different ways of stabilizing ourselves.” This is true I bet we all have a bit of autism in us somewhere.

The film Snow Cake opens today at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas and has arrived at a time of exploding awareness about autism spectrum disorders, the catch-all term for a range of conditions that share difficulties in the areas of speech, social interaction and repetitive behaviours and it will also help people with autism raise their voices in a plea for respect and acceptance.

One of the most startling things she has learned is how variable the condition is there are as many expressions of autism as there are autistic people and I know how she feels because my son has a form of autism but no doctor will diagnose him as there are so many different types out there and is hard to say what one he has.

In this film, Linda is able to live on her own and hold a job stocking store shelves. She speaks capably which is a struggle for many with autism but has trouble deciphering the moods and motives of the people around her.

She winds up playing reluctant host to Alex how is played by Alan Rickman a stranger in whose car Linda’s daughter died during a traffic accident.

British writer Angela Pell who wrote the scripted “Snow Cake,” was inspired by her own autistic son, though his story is far which is different from Linda’s.

Her son Johnny is nine and is “at the other extreme of the spectrum,” Pell says. “He doesn’t have a huge amount of language and if I went to see ‘Snow Cake,’ I’d probably come out and say, ‘Well, actually, that’s nothing like my son.”

She said “But what I was trying to do is just give a general feel of what it’s like to learn to live with and love somebody who’s rather extraordinary, really. And there are a few other themes in there, just generally about acceptance, really.”

I know how Angela feels because life is challenging with my son who has a form of autism and he is three years old and has no speech but I must say my son is one of the happiest children around and he brings a lot of joy to a lot of people in and out of my family.

All I can say is don’t pre judge autistic people before you know the facts about what they have to go through in life they are just like you and me.
This is a film I would love to see hope that it comes to the UK soon!

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