Marlee Matlin on Hollywood, Healing and Stories Still Untold
The documentary explores the challenges Ms. Matlin has faced throughout her life. The actress said that she battled drug and alcohol addiction and that she was in an abusive relationship with her 'Children of A Lesser God' co-star William Hurt, who died in 2022. After Ms. Matlin wrote about the relationship in her 2009 memoir, Mr. Hurt said in a statement: 'I did and do apologize for any pain I caused.'
Throughout her career Ms. Matlin has pushed for more acting roles and has become an advocate on deaf issues such as improving accessibility and representation in mainstream media. When she was asked to participate in a documentary about her life, Ms. Matlin insisted on hiring a Deaf, female director. As a result, the documentary, 'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,' is not rooted in sound, and there are no voice-overs — there are only captions — for the American Sign Language conversations.
The film's director, Shoshannah Stern, who is also an actress, said the project was an opportunity to show viewers how Ms. Matlin experienced the world. The documentary also calls on Hollywood to be more inclusive of stories like this one.
'I want to make people challenge their assumptions of who should be centered in stories and how we see the world,' Ms. Stern said. 'But that really requires people in positions of power to start saying yes to stories that are being told differently.'
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