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I run a bingo hall and a deaf person once unsuccessfully tried to take us to court for discrimination when we told here we couldn't hire her on as a bingo caller due to her disability.

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I’m a disabled person, and it still frustrates me when others don’t understand that accounting for our circumstances doesn’t count as discrimination.

I don't see many folks in wheelchairs on fashion show runways...

I get it. Acting is such a subjective job that Directir A loves you but Director B wants to run you out of town. You have full discretion on hiring even if its superficial or discriminatory (not blatantly though).

My work hired some woman who didn't mention her inability to get on the ground... it's in the job description and must be done to perform the job. Somehow she is still there doing different tier work but it felt disingenuous at least to get in in the first place.

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No, it's not. It's not discrimination to hire someone with the appropriate qualifications for the job. You can reject an applicant for a job as an engineer if they don't have the appropriate qualifications, right? If the role requires you to be a particular race, age, gender, certain tone of voice, etc, those are part of the qualifications. Not all jobs require the same things.

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Except it's illegal to use age, race, religion, sexual orientation and other such things as qualifiers for jobs. Except in the movie industry because you wouldn't hire a black person to play an Asian. You missed the point and wanted to sound smart but you're wrong and silly.

They can do that in other industries, they just don't tell you when they do it.

Basically everything you're saying isn't true. Factually inaccurate. For multiple reasons. First of all, many jobs have age requirements. Many things in this world have different ranges where you can't do it until after a certain age. Perfectly legal. Also, other industries other than movies, including TV, radio, modeling, etc exist and do the same things. Sports and athletics related jobs have gender requirements. So even if we want to pretend that what you're saying isn't BS (it is BS), then it's still wrong because it's not only movies.

Next, OP specifically says the word discriminate. Discrimination is unjust/prejudicial treatment of people based on their given categories. It isn't unjust or prejudiced to pick a person based on their age, race, gender, etc for a role in a film. It's appropriate for the work that is being done. Which is my point. You're the one missing the point trying to have a Reddit "gotcha" moment and you failed.

"Discriminate" literally means to recognise the difference in things.

So, every industry discriminates against who they hire when they choose one person over another based on things such as qualifications, knowledge, personality, job history, etc.