Lauren Ridloff explains laser cue trick; British judge says deaf women discriminated during concert
Here are two deaf news briefs.
Deaf actress Lauren Ridloff, who will play Makkari in Marvel’s “Eternals” — to be released on November 5 — explained in an interview with the New York Times that after a day of filming, she expressed frustration to fellow actress Angelina Jolie about how she could receive a cue whenever she is facing a wall. She can’t hear when she is supposed to “start” her acting or lines.
Jolie came up with an idea of using a laser pen pointer that could be easily erased by the special effects team. Ridloff said whenever she is “looking at a wall, the interpreters would use a laser pen to make a circle on the wall — “rolling, rolling, rolling” — and once it went away that meant, “Action!” That was helpful. So, that’s a cool piece of information. Deaf people always have to find a way. Kudos to Jolie for coming up with that idea.
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A British judge ruled that three deaf women were discriminated against during a concert headlining the music group “Little Mix.” BBC explained that the deaf women attended the concert with their hearing children in 2017. They requested an interpreter and were told by the concert promoter, LHG Live, that they would receive free carer tickets but would have to bring their own interpreter.
One of the deaf women, Sally Reynolds, successfully applied for a court injunction to force LHG Live to provide a BSL interpreter under the U.K.’s Equality Act 2010. But during the concert, there were no interpreters for the supporting acts — interpreters only showed up when Little Mix took the stage.
BBC said the judge rejected LGH Live’s argument that they did not have enough time to deal with the issues that arose. The judge said he was concerned that LGH Live “appeared to have given no thought whatsoever to the possibility of deaf people attending one of their concerts.”
An attorney representing the deaf women, Chris Fry, said LGH was hostile, threatening the deaf women with legal action with cost liabilities of over 100,000 British pounds. The deaf women sued anyways, and now they’ve won their case for discrimination.The judge awarded the three deaf women damages of 5,000 British pounds each.
British deaf outlet “The Limping Chicken” said the judgment could lead to more access for deaf people at large events.
That’s the two Deaf News briefs for today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/movies/lauren-ridloff-eternals-deaf-hero.html