Hearing-impaired actress Marlee Matlin has a message for Hollywood: Listen up. Nearly 10 years after lobbying for mandatory closed-captioning on TV, Matlin says Hollywood still doesn’t offer movies with captioning for the deaf.
“I still cannot watch `Annie Hall’ because the video is not closed-captioned,” the Oscar-winning actress wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Times.
“I am embarrassed to say it is still virtually impossible for deaf people to enjoy films in theaters because no nationwide standard exists to make theatrical releases accessible to the hearing impaired,” she wrote.
“The hearing impaired population may live in silence, but we don’t have to be deprived of the kind of information and entertainment so many people take for granted.”
