When Lauren Ridloff saw Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” for the first time at a special screening on the Disney lot in October, the actor began to cry before the movie had even started…
” for the first time at a special screening on the Disney lot in October, the actor began to cry before the movie had even started. The COVID pandemic had delayed the Chloé Zhao film for a full year, but for Ridloff — the first deaf actor ever to play a superhero in a studio feature film — the wait had been much longer., through the use of an American Sign Language interpreter. “I didn’t really see anyone like myself ever represented on the screen.
Cut to Ridloff, weeping in a darkened theater — “Tears of joy! Tears of joy!” — as she watched herself converse in ASL with costars like, Kumail Nanjiani and Salma Hayek with nary a line of dialogue wasted to explain why. “It’s actually invaluable to my work now,” she says. “Whenever I go to shoots on ‘The Walking Dead,’ I use a laser pen. When the camera starts rolling, the interpreter just moves the laser pen in a circle, and then on action, it disappears, so I know that’s when we’re calling action.
Given the movie’s global and historical scope, were there discussions about the kind of sign language you would be using in the movie? One thing that I love about Hollywood is it’s Hollywood’s nature to problem solve. Also, sometimes people, you know, overthink things. It wasn’t that complicated to work out all those action sequences. We would just walk through it, do our blocking marks. We would do a dry run, just to make sure everything was safe. And then if we were clear on everything, we would just go through it, and it worked.
What kind of responses have you been getting from deaf and hard of hearing people about your character?
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