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Marlee Matlin Calls on Studios to Green-light Deaf Stories
Or at the very least, stories with deaf characters.
As Shoshannah Stern’s moving new documentary, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, reminds us, the actress was 21 when she won for 1986’s Children of a Lesser God and only 19 when she was cast in Randa Haines’s film adaptation of Mark Medoff’s searing romantic drama about the relationship between a young deaf woman and a hearing speech teacher (played by William Hurt). The progress toward deaf representation in film that felt so inevitable in 1986 never quite materialized, and Matlin went on to face difficulty in finding major movie roles in the ensuing years. But Matlin proceeded to deliver unforgettable performances in shows such as Seinfeld, The West Wing, Law & Order, and The L Word.
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