FILMMAKERS have been criticised for casting Jake Gyllenhaal in the leading role of double amputee Jeff Bauman in new movie Stronger – rather than an actor with disabilities.

Campaigners said the opportunity to cast a disabled actor for the part of the Boston Marathon survivor was “overlooked”.

The Ruderman Family Foundation, which fights for the rights of people with disabilities, called it an “all too common discrimination in Hollywood”.

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SINGER songwriter Sampha said he “felt like I’m dreaming” as he was announced as the winner of the Mercury Prize.

The south London musician beat off competition from Ed Sheeran and Stormzy to take home the UK’s most prestigious music award.

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LADY Gaga has been taken to hospital suffering from “severe physical pain”.

The singer has cancelled a performance at Rock In Rio in Brazil as a result.

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NEW dad Benedict Cumberbatch has said playing a parent who loses a child was “a very unpleasant place to go to”.

The Sherlock actor plays author Stephen Lewis in the BBC One adaptation of Ian McEwan’s award-winning novel The Child In Time.

The book, which won McEwan the prestigious Whitbread Novel Award in 1987, is centred around Lewis and his wife Julie (played by Trainspotting star Kelly Macdonald) and their struggle following the loss of their young child.

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The Sherlock actor and his theatre director spouse, Sophie Hunter, have two young sons and welcomed their youngest, reportedly named Hal, in March this year.