CODA writer-director Siân Heder was joined by stars Marlee Matlin and Emilia Jones at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles to discuss the drama, which set a record when Apple paid $25 million-plus to acquire the film after its opening-night premiere at Sundance,“When I watched the original film,” said Heder of the 2014 French movie, “I was just very drawn to this character at the center.
I think the idea of a CODA, a hearing person raised within deaf culture, who can navigate both the deaf world and the hearing world, and feels a part of both but also a part of neither; there was amazing tension in that.
I really wanted to explore that character more deeply. There was a missed opportunity in the original film, to take a deep dive into a
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