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Marlee Matlin and actor William Hurt will arrive at the Oscars in 1987.
Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty ImagesMarlee Matlin Looking back at its turbulent two -year relationship with the actor William Hurt And what he called his “custom of abuse”.
Matlin, 59, met Hurt, who died in 2022 at the age of 71When filming in 1986 Children of the Lesser God. She portrayed Sarah, a deaf woman who fell in love with her speech teacher James (Hunt). The role has brought her out Oscar for the best actressWhich makes her the first deaf actress who has ever won the prize.
Hunt said that night, and Matlin said she was afraid to go to the stage and accept an Oscar.
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Matlin has described how she is approaching stage and hesitating, afraid to take the price from her friend’s hands.
“I wish it was different,” she admitted. “I wish I show my joy. But I was afraid because he stood there. “
Marlee Matlin and actor William Hurt
Bettmann/Getty ImagesIt’s not the first time Matlin talked about that night. IN Dave Kargerbook from 2024, 50 Oscar NightsMatlin remembered an interview with Hurt, who minimized her success.
“So you have the little man next to you.” Why do you think you deserve it? ‘”She remembered his words. “I looked at him as, ‘What do you mean?” And he said, ‘A lot of people have been working for a long time, especially those with whom you have been nominated for many years to get what you have gained with one movie.’
Matlin’s sign language interpreter also appears in the document Jack Jasonwho depicted the incident with the two of the private plane. Matlin, as he claimed, was in a room with Hurt and left with a black eye.
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Children of the Lesser God director Randa Haines He remembers that he saw the alleged bruises on Matlin during the filming.
“I saw that they were arguing, arguing,” she said. “I remember noticing bruises once. But I didn’t know. No one had the feeling that he was authorized to enter or comment or ask him. “
Haines also talked about how hurt “said a joke and turned his back to (Matlin) so she couldn’t see.
“I tried to understand what was going on,” she added. “But I saw that he suffered.”
Before his death, he said he had apologized to Matlin.
“My own memory is that we both apologized and they both did a lot to heal our lives,” he said in a statement. AND! News In 2009. And I know we both grew up. Marlee and her family wish only the good. ”
