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Marlee Matlin: 'It was like one big family'

Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin spoke with PBS about daef actors in Hollywood and what it was like on the set of the movie CODA.

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She says working on CODA was different than anything she had been a part of before because:

Most of the people signed. The crew learned to sign. There were deaf actors other than myself that I could talk and have conversations with whether at lunch or between set-ups. There were interpreters everywhere. It was like one big family.

Watch the entire vide here:


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