Portrayed by Tessa Thompson, Bianca suffers from progressive hearing loss and uses a hearing aid and there is no information about Bianca's upbringing or family life. She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she meets Adonis Creed.
Tessa Thompson would not have felt comfortable if her Creed character became completely deaf. In the boxing franchise, the actress plays Bianca, a singer/music producer who suffers from progressive hearing loss and uses hearing aids, with Thompson learning American Sign Language (ASL) for the role.
“Creed 3” has been making waves in the box offices, already grossing over $180 million worldwide in its first two weeks. The film is also making waves among the disability community as 10-year-old actress Mila Davis Kent is the first Black deaf actress to play a role in a major film.
One of the characters that I really enjoyed watching was Bianca, whom we learned in the first movie is an aspiring singer who happens to have hereditary disorder that leads her to develop progressive hearing loss.
Born in Creed II, Amara is the daughter of Adonis Creed and Bianca Taylor. Bianca's hearing loss has been present since the original Creed, but when Amara was born, the couple found out that their daughter would be fully deaf.
Bianca gives birth to a baby girl named Amara Creed, but it is discovered that Amara is born deaf due to Bianca's progressive degenerative hearing disorder being hereditary. Bianca sings during Adonis's opening to the ring and embraces him after his triumph. She is last seen with Adonis and Amara at Apollo's grave.
It is evident that Bianca's hearing loss may have progressed since the original movie ended: She is visibly wearing her hearing aid more frequently and sporadically communicates with Adonis — whom she calls “D” — in simple sign language.
Renca Dunn, Daily Moth Reporter: The movie “Creed III” was released on March 3rd and it has hit the top of the box office in the U.S. and is making its way around the world. Mila Davis-Kent (10), who is the first young Black Deaf girl actress to be featured in a major film, plays the character of Amara.
The trilogy's final film is directed by Jordan, and compared to the first two films, Creed III shows a different side of Adonis Creed. He is now a husband to a hard of hearing Black woman and a father to a deaf daughter who uses ASL as a primary form of communication. Advertisement.
Actress Tessa Thompson, who portrays singer/songwriter Bianca in the film, was involved early with the film's preparation in order to write music for her character with Göransson. "We spent two weeks in Los Angeles in a studio basically writing from morning until night," said Thompson.
Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad), Apollo's widow, meets with Adonis and adopts him; informing him that he is Apollo Creed's son (sired from an extramarital affair).
First things first: Bianca (played by Tessa Thompson), Donnie's wife and Amara's mother, has been a character since the first installment, and she is hard of hearing. However, Thompson is a hearing actor. In contrast, Davis-Kent is a Deaf actress playing a Deaf girl.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Amara inherited her mother's progressive hearing disorder and was born deaf. This diagnoses broke her parents' hearts, as Bianca lamented Amara would never appreciate her mother's love of music, and Adonis thought life was hard enough as it is.
Bianca is no longer performing in order to preserve what's left of her hearing, and there's a heartbreaking moment where she's quietly singing along to someone else's performance of her own song.
The last time we saw her in Creed II, she had given birth to a baby daughter named Amara, who was born deaf due to Bianca's hereditary hearing loss disorder. Creed III picks up several years later, and Amara is now a precocious young girl played by Mila Davis-Kent, who attends a special school for deaf children.
Johnson is the biological mother Adonis Johnson Creed. She conceived her son via an affair with former heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed before he died in 1985. Her son was left orphaned after her death, until he was adopted by Mary Anne Creed, Apollo's widow, in the year 1998.
Apollo Creed was married to a woman named Mary Anne Creed who has been played by three different actresses: Lavelle Roby in Rocky, Sylvia Meals in Rocky II and Rocky IV, and Phylicia Rashad in the Creed films. But she is not Creed's birth mother: That would be a woman known only by her last name, Johnson.
Expect violent fight scenes both in and out of the boxing ring as well as strong language (mostly "s--t"), drinking, and a bit of kissing and flirting between a married couple.
Creed II also revealed that Amara was born deaf, which paves the way for Creed III to explore her upbringing with her parents, and more specifically, the life experience she shares with her mother.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “intense sports action, violence and some strong language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene, a few kisses, a fight scene involving teens and a gun is drawn, a fight that leads to a boxer being badly injured, many boxing sequences that include some ...
The film finds Bianca at an interesting point in her career. She's a successful songwriter and producer, but she's stopped performing because of her hearing loss.
