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‘A Quiet Place II’ Star Millicent Simmonds on Casting Hearing Actors as Deaf Characters: ‘It’s Not Fair’
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variety.comMackenzie Nichols Staff WriterMillicent Simmonds is at the forefront of a cultural movement to hire more actors with disabilities.
The young performer knew she wanted to pursue an acting career after working with director Todd Haynes in “Wonderstruck” in 2017, and thanks to director John Krasinski, the deaf actor scored her breakout role as Regan Abbott in “A Quiet Place” the next year.In the film, she plays the deaf daughter of Krasinski’s Lee Abbott in a post-apocalyptic thriller where monsters are drawn to sound and people must maintain their silence in order to live.
The surviving members of the Abbott family, who include Emily Blunt’s Evelyn and Noah Jupe’s Marcus, return for “A Quiet Place Part II,” set to hit theaters May 28. What.
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