Kiera Allen won the role of Chloe in Run (Picture: Hulu)

The director of hit new horror movie Run, starring Sarah Paulson, has revealed how some actors lied about their disability in hopes of landing the leading role. 

Run follows overprotective mother Diane Sherman (Paulson) who uses the fact her teenage daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen) is in a wheelchair to prevent her from going outside. As the film unravels, it becomes clear that perhaps Diane doesn’t have her daughter’s best interests at heart. 

Director Aneesh Chaganty, his co-writer Sev Ohanian and producer Natalie Qasabian were determined to give the opportunity of playing Chloe to an actress who was actually in a wheelchair. 

‘There were a couple of young ladies we saw that submitted themselves as people with disabilities,’ Aneesh explained to MovieMaker. 

He continued: ‘And we were like, wow, they’re really talented… but somebody looked them up on Instagram. There were videos of them walking on the beach from like, two hours ago.’ 

Aneesh said it was almost unsaid among his team that would cast a disabled actress in real life, stating: ‘It was never a controversial topic between the three of us. It was sort of like, “Yeah, we’re doing this right?” “Yeah”. “Cool”. And then the process of actually finding this person proved to be an intense and countrywide sort of search and we ended up finding this incredible talent in Kiera Allen.’