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Month: March 2019

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019

“Who Gets To Speak, and When”

“Cripping up” is in the news again; one new TV show definitely features a sighted actor playing a blind character, and it looks like Emily Blunt may be playing a deaf-blind character.  And of course there’s The Silence, soon to be available on Netflix, with a deaf main character played by Kiernan Shipka. A recent…

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March 14, 2019May 27, 2021

Chasing “The Silence”

What’s already happened? In May 2017, an announcement was made at Cannes that The Silence was being produced, with horror director John R. Leonetti (Annabelle) leading the creative team with Kiernan Shipka as the first cast member to sign on[1]. Here’s the synopsis: The Silence tells the terrifying tale of Ally, a deaf teenager, and…

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