CODA director Sian Heder on her philosophy: “I like telling stories about people who don’t get to be the protagonist of their own story. There’s no better way to get the experience of someone who is different than you'
,” a touching melodrama about a teenage girl who is the only hearing member of her family, the writer-director wanted the audio to cut to complete silence. In the pivotal scene, 17-year-old Ruby Rossi belts out a soulful rendition of “You’re All I Need to Get By” at her high school concert. Her parents, played byand Troy Kotsur, and her brother , all of whom are deaf, sit in the audience, unable to hear the lyrics that pour out of the youngest Rossi’s mouth like honey.
“I don’t think I’d ever met a director who was so invested in her work, as well as in learning about the deaf community,” says Matlin through her longtime sign language interpreter Jack Jason. There were plenty of opportunities to get linguistically creative, as in one instance where Ruby, at the doctor’s office with her mom and dad, has to translate that her parents have jock itch. “Troy is an amazing improviser,” Heder says. “We were dying laughing behind the monitor because every time he described having jock itch, it became more outrageous, more visual and more graphic.”
In “CODA,” Heder was able to highlight different perspectives by getting detailed accounts of situations that she personally never faced. Durant, who plays Leo, Ruby’s strapping, scrappy older brother, penned a scene about being the only deaf person at a crowded bar. “Dan wrote me this amazing thing about having to be a detective, basically. You read someone’s lips and you get half of the sentence. Then somebody laughs across the table and you look over and you realize this joke was made.
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