Mila Davis-Kent Brings Authenticity to Creed III as Film Incorporates ASL. The highly anticipated film, Creed III, has a new addition to its cast– Mila Davis-Kent. Davis-Kent, a deaf actress, represents the deaf community in her role as Amara Creed, the daughter of Adonis Creed in the film.
“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.
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.
“It was always important to me, even in her having progressive hearing loss, that in the context of our films, her hearing loss would not progress all the way,” she said. “I did not feel comfortable in telling that story. I'm not a member of the Deaf community.
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.
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.
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.
In her early performing days, she was involved in the Los Angeles Ladies Choir, through which she met various members of the Los Angeles arts and entertainment scene. Thompson wrote songs for the films Dear White People and Creed, and she was the singer for the electronic soul band Caught a Ghost from 2014 to 2016.
Deaf almost from birth, actress Marlee Matlin became a respected Academy Award-winning actress. Born in Morton Grove, Illinois, she lost most of her hearing while still a baby. She began performing on stage as a youngster in productions with other hearing-impaired youth.
Soon after, Johnson had to leave the band due to hearing loss. There was a time when singer Brian Johnson might have felt better crashing into a wall at 180 mph than living the rest of his life without being able to perform anymore with legendary rock band AC/DC.
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.
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).
Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson in Creed III Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 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.
Thompson is a singer-songwriter who previously collaborated with the Los Angeles–based indie electro soul group, Caught a Ghost. She also made significant contributions to the soundtracks of Creed and Creed II by co-writing and performing multiple songs with producer Moses Sumney.
Kotsur's portrayal of a deaf father in the comedy drama film CODA (2021) was critically acclaimed and won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first male deaf actor, and second overall (after Marlee Matlin) to win an acting Oscar.
There is a wide variation in the causes of deafness. Because of this 9 out of 10 deaf children are born to hearing parents and 1 out of 10 children born to deaf parents are also deaf. With current tests, it is only possible to determine the probable cause of their deafness for about half (40-50%) of children.
"... when I learned I was going to do Thor, I took on this English accent and when I was here, I would pretend to be British to get into the dialect." She added that now, "people will tweet at me, and tell me that my American accent is bad." "That is the greatest compliment you can get," James told her.
“I love music,” she told Jennifer Hudson on the show. “Being in the music industry, maybe it didn't kill the joy of music, but it's when you put music and business together, sometimes it can not feel so good.” The “Challengers” star said with “the right timing” she would consider releasing new tunes to the public.
Creed in 2023. From left to right: Scott Phillips, Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti and Brian Marshall. Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. For most of its existence, the band has consisted of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips.
In Creed, the audience sees Bianca as a strong woman who just happens to wear hearing aids, and is planning on learning sign language in case she becomes profoundly deaf. Adonis becomes smitten with her, and they fall in love. Her disability has nothing to do with their relationship.
