Following months of outrage from the autism community, Sia has announced that Music, her Golden Globe-nominated directorial debut, will now feature a warning label at the beginning of the film. In a ...
Sia addressed the controversy surrounding her directorial feature debut, “Music,” after the film earned two Golden Globes nominations Tuesday morning, then promptly deleted her Twitter account. (Sia’s ...
Sia has apologized to the autistic community for her directorial debut “Music” after the film generated backlash for its casting of neurotypical actor Maddie Ziegler as a non-verbal autistic person.
Sia is explaining why she cast Maddie Ziegler rather than an actor with autism in her new movie, “Music.” The “Chandelier” singer appeared on Australia’s “The Sunday Project,” to explain the reasoning ...
"MUSIC in no way condones or recommends the use of restraint on autistic people," Sia tweeted Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...
Sia revealed she has received a late diagnosis of autism. “I’m on the spectrum, and I’m in recovery and whatever — there’s a lot of things,” the “Chandelier” singer said Thursday during a candid ...
Sia's new movie "Music" has outraged the autism community, for both the casting of a neurotypical actress in the role of an autistic character as well as for showing scenes where the character is ...
Several actors with autism spoke out against “Music” in a New York Times interview, with performer Ashley Wool calling Sia’s movie “something that’s doing active harm to people.” Actress Chloé Hayden ...
A petition demanding the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. rescind its Golden Globe nominations for Sia’s film, “Music,” has amassed more than 45,000 signatures. Launched recently by members of the autism ...
In early 2021, Sia previewed her new movie, Music, centered around a non-verbal autistic girl named Music. Former Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler played the title character. Ziegler has collaborated ...
Sia Furler’s life in music has followed a strange and winding path. The Australian-born artist, now age 45, spent the 1990s and early ’00s in relative obscurity, playing with a few bands, landing the ...
Sia revealed to The New York Times as part of a profile on comedian Kathy Griffin that she entered rehab following the extreme outrage over her feature directorial debut, “Music.” Sia sparked backlash ...