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Quaden Bayles has landed a role in the forthcoming movie Mad Max: Furiosa.In 2020, the 11-year-old indigenous Australian boy earned the support of celebrities, including Hugh Jackman and Cardi B, when his mum posted a Facebook video of him saying he wanted to “kill himself” after he was bullied for his disability. Now, Bayles has been cast in a small role in George Miller’s prequel to his post-apocalyptic 2015 blockbuster, Mad Max: Fury Road. The news was announced on Saturday (20 August), in an interview published in The…

The actor Paul Rudd has sent a handwritten letter to a 12-year-old boy after he received just two signatures from fellow students in his school yearbook.The pair also spoke on FaceTime after Brody Ridder, from Colorado, came home from school with the yearbook. Brody, who signed his own blank yearbook with the message: “Hope you make some more friends,” had reportedly been repeatedly alienated and bullied by his classmates.But after his mother, Cassandra, posted about the incident in a Facebook post that went viral, the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Kindergartners who act out, disrupt classrooms, get angry and argue with their teachers are especially likely to be bullied once they reach third, fourth and fifth grade, our research group has found. …