MasterChef contestant Adam Pearson's extraordinary life - and Hollywood past
31.08.2022 - 08:55
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Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here But he hadn't always planned to go into acting - and graduated from Brighton University with a degree in business management.
After originally working on the other side of the screen, commissioning shows at the BBC and Channel 4, the 37-year-old first starred on screen in the groundbreaking series Beauty And The Beast: The Ugly Face Of Prejudice. He then went on to present a series of shows, including Channel 4’s Tricks of the Restaurant Trade and BBC One’s The One Show.
The actor then starred in Hollywood flick 'Under the Skin' in 2013, a science-fiction movie, in which he appeared opposite Scarlett Johansson, playing a man whose visibly different face helps to humanise Johansson’s alien. He previously shared his hope that the role, in which him and Johansson appeared naked, would challenge some of the stigma surrounding disfigurement.
"If I can try to be as normal as possible and show there’s nothing to fear – either on film or day to day, going round the corner to go shopping for milk – then the more people see it in wider society, the less stigma there is," the star told the Observer. The star has also shared the horrific comments he's faced from ignorant people because of his facial disfigurement - and used his platform to raise awareness.
This includes starring in a BBC Three documentary called The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime "I had a guy in a club in Brighton once think I was wearing a mask and tried to rip my face off and say what kind of person gives birth to something like this," he revealed in the BBC3 documentary in 2015. Speaking to the Mirror in 2016, Adam added: "I used to stand outside the school gates in the
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