"So in addition to having to deal with the physical effects of illness and disability you also have to deal with the social stigma and that's really unfortunate. "One of the really difficult things about doing this is that it can be socially isolating," Green added. Their lives are every bit as rich and complex and important and meaningful as any others." They’re capable of love and they have all the same desires as other people. My experience has always been, that the people who are chronically ill are also many other things. A lot of times I think that, from the outside, maybe we imagine sick people as being defined by their illness or as being simply, merely sick. The filmmaker’s latest project, Loving, follows the real-life couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose union led the Supreme Court to strike down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Director Jeff Nichols has never had an easier time titling a movie.
"They aren’t entirely defined by their illness or by their disability. National Loving Day: The Loving cast on the film couples perfect and fateful last name. “I guess I wanted to show that people living with illness are also doing many other things," Green told us. Ultimately, Greene says his decision behind writing the book was to write about illness. I read a lot of memoirs, textbooks about the disease so that I could try to understand it." "I also talked to a lot of oncologists and I read a lot about the disease.
"It was very important to me to talk to a lot of people who were living with cancer or who had children, other family members, die of cancer," said Green. "The Fault in our Stars" author John Green.