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. Creed 2 does the opposite.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Creed (2015) In the seventh installment, it has been revealed that Creed had an affair and, from that, Adonis "Donnie" Johnson Creed was born. In 1998, after Adonis' biological mother's death in the late '90s, Apollo's widow, Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad), adopts him.
BET.com: In the film, Creed's daughter was born with a hearing disability, with the characters actively learning sign language to communicate with her.
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.
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.
Despite being the face of the Rocky franchise, Stallone chose not to appear in Creed III due to creative differences with producer Irwin Winkler as well as with Jordan, although he is still a producer on the film. According to Stallone, the film had a much darker tone that he didn't agree with.
The spin-off is part of the Rocky Balboa film saga, but this instalment has attracted attention for not including Sylvester Stallone, the man who played Rocky in the first two Creed films and in the Rocky films.
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.
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.
While Creed II came out only five years ago, the third installment takes place seven years after the previous film. This places the characters in the year 2025, and based on Adonis' birthday, he is either 38 or 39, depending on what time of the year the film takes place.
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.
Adonis Creed is back, and he's living a flourished life with his wife Bianca (Tessa Thompson) and his daughter Amara Creed (Mila Davis-Kent). However, things start to change when his long-lost friend Damien “Dame” Anderson (Jonathan Majors) is released from prison after serving an 18-year sentence.
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.
