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‘Echo’ Director & EP Sydney Freeland On How Marvel Crafted Its First TV-MA Series
Echo marks a lot of firsts for Marvel Studios. The five-episode series introduces the MCU’s first deaf and Native American character, Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox). It’s also the first series…
None of this is lost on director and executive producer Sydney Freeland, who didn’t necessarily intend to make an MCU series with so many historic milestones. Echo takes some big swings, both in terms of its gruesomeness as well as its pursuit of a culturally aware depiction of a Deaf and Indigenous lead character. We asked ourselves, ‘Do we need to compensate for the fact that we have characters that aren’t speaking for minutes at a time?’ And, in hindsight, I want to go back and tell myself it’s gonna be fine.
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