Sony Pictures Animation’s ‘Goat’ Makes History as First Major Studio Film Voiced by an All-Disability Loop Group

In Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat,” the roar of the crowd filling the theater speakers carries a significance most audiences won’t know. Those chants, crowd noise and ambient arena energy were provided by nearly two dozen actors with disabilities, making history as the first-ever all-disability loop group to work on a major studio film.

The Disability Loop Group, formed through the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge (Edfc), made its feature film debut in “Goat,” the original animated action-comedy now in theaters. It’s a milestone that Nic Novicki, the Edfc’s founder and director, has been building toward for over a decade.

“Like Will in ‘Goat,’ these talented artists earned a chance to show what they can do,” said Novicki.

A little person and working actor whose credits include “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Sopranos,” and “The Good Doctor,” he launched the film challenge 13 years ago after noticing a persistent gap in…