“Anyone I’d work with, they’d be like, ‘There’s something wrong with this dude.’ Then, they’d realize it’s just my personality,” he joked. Mitte recalled that when he started his career as an extra on shows like 7th Heaven and Hannah Montana, he wouldn’t even list his disability on his résumé. That’s it.’ He’s so dedicated and they love him, sending a van every day to pick him up.” Having turned his two-episode arc into a regular role as computer specialist Patton Plame on NCIS: New Orleans for the last six years, his son has worked as a PA on the crime serial for three: “They’re like, ‘This is my best PA on set. Mitchell could relate, as he is also the parent of a son with autism. He went from growing up with no friends to having a whole dugout full of them,” she shared. “We were told he would never have a job, but this major league hiring my son changed his life. You might see people play autism, but you don’t often see people with autism just doing them.” Her son RJ, now 21, works as a clubhouse attendant for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Holly Robinson Peete moderated the panel and kicked off the evening sharing her own motivation for documenting her family’s life on Hallmark Channel’s Meet the Peetes: “I’m a mother of a child with autism. Presented as part of the Foundation’s “Power of TV” series, the discussion also featuring RJ Mitte ( Breaking Bad, Now Apocalypse), Shoshannah Stern (creator, writer and star of This Close), Krista Vernoff ( Grey’s Anatomy showrunner), Jonathan Murray (Bunim/Murray Productions, Born This Way executive producer) and Katherine Perez (director of Loyola Law School’s Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation) posed the question of how to make Hollywood more inclusive for people of disabilities on and off camera when one in four people in America have a disability but are represented by less than three percent of characters onscreen. That’s unreal, to be the only,” NCIS: New Orleans star Daryl “Chill” Mitchell said Wednesday night on the Television Academy Foundation and Easterseals Southern California’s “Representing Disability in Storytelling” panel in North Hollywood. ![]() “When people see me, they say, ‘Man, you’re the only black actor on TV in a wheelchair.
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