Xeroderma Pigmentosum - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

These fictional characters have XP:

• Christopher Snow in Dean Koontz's Moonlight Bay Trilogy
• Luke in the 2002 novel Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
• In the Japanese movie Taiyou no Uta also known as Midnight Sun, the main character (Kaoru Amane)
• In the ITV series Ultraviolet, one of the humans is mistaken for a vampire because he avoids sunlight, when in fact he has XP.
• In the independent film Dark Side of the Sun (1988) with Brad Pitt as the main character suffering from XP.
• In the 2001 film The Others, the two children, Anne and Nicholas, suffer from XP.
• In the 2003 novel Second Glance by Jodi Picoult, Ethan Wakeman, the 9-year-old nephew of Ross Wakeman (the main protagonist)
• The 2003 Angela Johnson novel, A Cool Moonlight, centers on a girl who has XP and can never be in the sun. The family has gone to drastic measures to help make her life easier, and to make her feel like a normal 8-year-old.
• The Spanish film "Eskalofrío" or "Shiver" released in 2008 featured a main character named Santi who is ostracized as he suffers from the condition.
• The 2011 film La permission de minuit by French director Delphine Gleize centers on a teenage boy with XP.
• The 2012 documentary "Sun Kissed" explores the XP problem on the Navajo Indian Reservation.