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Coda Cast connected Importance of Deaf Representation astatine Oscars 2022
Marlee Matlin is a arrogant movie mom.
The CODA actress is reflecting connected attending Week 2 of Dancing With the Stars to support costar Daniel Durant—an experience, she says, that made her consciousness astir maternal.
"Troy Kotsur and were conscionable bursting with pridefulness to spot him connected the creation stage," she told E! News exclusively astatine the New York Women successful Communications 52nd Annual Matrix Awards Oct. 26. "I astir leapt implicit the array and hugged him. I was like, 'Oh, I'm truthful blessed for Daniel. Our babe is dancing connected stage!'"
Matlin—who became the archetypal deaf idiosyncratic to look on Dancing With the Stars in play six—added that "deaf oregon not," it takes courageousness to look connected the show.
"It takes a batch of balls—I anticipation you tin accidental that—to get up connected the stage," she explained, "And enactment connected your dancing shoes and creation outfit and bash a creation successful beforehand of millions of people."
Matlin yet came successful seventh during her play of the competition. In the years since, the Oscar victor has shown her enactment for different deaf contestants connected the show—in 2016, she attended exemplary Nyle DiMarco's finale taping, sporting a t-shirt in support. DiMarco would spell connected to win the series' 22nd season, making past arsenic the show's first deaf winner.
Durant, alongside partner Britt Stewart, has remained consistently coagulated passim the season. With impermanent justice Michael Bublé's added points, his highest score came during Week 7 with 43 points.
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Watch Durant's show for yourself Dancing With the Stars airs astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m PT unrecorded connected Disney+.
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