“There were some signs in ASL that didn't exist for some of this fishing equipment, so we had to develop almost our own fishermen sign language and develop these gestures for what tools to use,” he said. Since Kotsur was often acting on a fishing boat with thick rubber gloves, he had to get creative to communicate. Kotsur says that authentic representation was important to Heder, who encouraged the cast to improvise and incorporate bits of deaf culture into their scenes. ![]() ![]() During the casting process for "CODA," Kotsur’s co-star Marlee Matlin, the first and only other deaf actor to win an Oscar (she won best actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God" in 1986), insisted on having deaf actors play the deaf characters. The story is based on a 2014 French film, “La Famille Bélier,” which cast hearing actors to play deaf roles. ![]() ![]() She has dreams of becoming a singer and studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, but leaving home would mean that the family could not rely on her to interpret for them. CODA stands for “child of deaf adults,” and the film is a coming-of-age story about Frank’s daughter Ruby, the only hearing member of her Gloucester fishing family.
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