Marlee Matlin stated today at the Sundance Film Festival that the casting of deaf Native American actress Alaqua Cox as Marvel superhero Echo, aka Maya Lopez, represents progress in Hollywood that still represents a major barrier to diverse talent, but that there are still much more needs to be done .
The trailblazing Oscar-winning actor was set to join Randell Park and others on a diverse panel at the 2020 Park City Festival. He starred in the Oscar-winning film Coda, which had its world premiere at Sundance.
Maya appeared in Disney+‘s Hawkeye, and the service plans to launch its own series based on her character in 2023.
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Matlin claims she was recently passed over for the role of a judge in a courtroom series because producers are still reluctant to pay interpreters or introduce them as an on-screen presence.
she said on the Sundance panel “The Big Conversation: Complicating Representation” Which “You can’t play deafness as a costume.” Still, “We are moving forward”, she confirmed. “There are deaf actors, there are deaf writers, there are deaf directors. I became director.”
In other words, I became a director. Fox will air Sony’s Accused, in which the Academy Award winner for Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God will make her directorial debut. Taika Waititi has been called “a real game changer for Indigenous filmmakers” by Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril from Canada’s Arctic.
I am not shy and have no trouble starting conversations. She said, “The Taika impact is real,” referring to the Mori-born director and writer of films like Reservation Dogs, Jojo Rabbit, and Thor: Love and Thunder. “It’s still harder for people like me to sell shows, but it’s not like ‘What?'”
Randall Park, the first feature filmmaker of the Sundance Film Festival, whose film Shortcomings will premiere there this year, emphasized the importance of such events in strengthening underrepresented points of view. “Asian American film festivals are a big part of my life and my acting career. Got to play so many different types [parts] and thanks to those festivals I was able to see them with an audience.”
The actor (Fresh Off the Boat, Aquaman, Always Be My Maybe) wished things would go faster. As one critic put it after seeing Better Luck Tomorrow at Sundance: “It was like this is going to change the industry. It didn’t,” A group of ambitious East Asian-American high school students in Justin Lin’s 2002 crime drama.
“I don’t have much faith in the powers that be, but I feel like we’re making a difference, and in time I hope we don’t have to have a panel on representation. Because I talked about it. It’s defined my working career in many ways, and I love it and it’s an honor to represent that. But you know, there’s so much more than what we do.”
Zackary Drucker is producer of Transparent and This Is Me and director of HBO’s The Lady and the Vale. He is also an artist and transgender activist. I think a lot of people can relate to that,” she noted. “Once you get your foot in the door, you just kick it wide open and bring everyone in.”
The importance of work must be preserved at all costs, Drucker believes. There are two types of projects: projects with institutional support and projects where the team says, “Work is important no matter what, by any means.”
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