“This was an independent film and incredibly hard to get made so I want to thank my team, my producers and all of you for believing in me, and how I wanted to make this movie,” Siân Heder said in her Oscars acceptance speech
at a very young age upon meeting her father’s assistant, who was a CODA herself .
Heder thought at the time that was amazing, and years later met a producer telling him the story, but adding a twist based on her own life in being an aspiring singer, and so she combined the two details when she wrote the script forShe previously commented, “For me it is more a metaphor because I have the feeling that my family don’t hear me when I was little.
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