Troy Kotsur, who played the role of a deaf father in the movie "Coda Ainouta", which was selected for Best Picture at this Academy Award, and was the first actor with a hearing loss to win the Best Supporting Actor Award, interviewed NHK. He talked about his thoughts.
Troy Kotsur, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the first time as a hearing-impaired actor in the movie "Coda Ainouta," spoke online in an independent interview with NHK using American sign language.
Regarding the award, Mr. Kotzer said, "I have worked hard as a Deaf actor at many sacrifices, difficult choices, and often financial instability, but they have led to excellent results." Said joy.
"Koda", which is also the title, is an abbreviation that means a child with a deaf parent, and Mr. Kotzer plays the role of a loving and humorous father who faces the daughter of a high school student who can only hear one in the family. He is enthusiastically performing in expressive sign language.
"I'm an actor who can play any role just because I happen to be a deaf person. Sign language has a lot of emotions and a wide range of things to convey," Kotzer said of his acting. I did.
He said that the Deaf actors could portray the Deaf culture as it is by playing the parents and brother of the daughter who aspires to sing, saying, "Without this work, the Deaf would be sorry. It may have been going on, and I feel that I was finally able to resolve that misunderstanding. "
Kotzer said it is important for people who are aiming for the world of movies and theatrical performances to work together to make deaf people and deaf people enjoy themselves. I want you to think that there are various people, not just whether you can't hear it, and think about human beings themselves. Let's make a story together and tell a story, thinking about expressing such things correctly in movies. I called.