Marlee Matlin is looking out CBS after the community didn’t function the American Sign Language (ASL) performers in the course of the dwell Super Bowl LVIII broadcast.
Deaf artists Shaheem Sanchez, Anjel Piñero and Daniel Durant have been launched in the course of the recreation earlier than their performances. Sanchez carried out “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with Andra Day, Piñero was launched to carry out alongside Post Malone “America, The Beautiful” and Durant interpreted the National Anthem alongside Reba McEntire.
“I am absolutely SHOCKED at CBS for introducing the Deaf performers at today’s pregame #SuperBowl and then not showing even one second (or more) of their performance… as has been tradition for the last 30 years. WHY!?” Matlin posted on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter.
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Matlin had posted on X a hyperlink to a CBS Sports web page the place the ASL performers can be featured.
Matlin had beforehand interacted with Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO questioned “the point of sign language in a video if you have subtitled.”
“As someone who uses both ASL and English, I can tell you they are grammatically and culturally different. So if someone who is Deaf and uses ASL exclusively, then a signer on screen provides access,” Matlin replied.
In 2023, Matlin was a jury member on the Sundance Film Festival and walked out of a Magazine Dreams screening after the pageant failed to supply captions for viewers members.
“The screening device used to provide closed captions did not work at one of our Friday evening premieres. The jury left and will see it together at another time during the Festival. Our team immediately worked with the devices in that venue to test them again for the next screening and the device worked without any malfunction,” Joana Vicente, CEO Sundance Institute, stated in an announcement following the incident.
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