{"id":244631,"date":"2025-09-21T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244631\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:02:10","slug":"troy-kotsur-says-he-hopes-black-rabbit-opens-doors-for-deaf-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244631\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Kotsur Says He Hopes &#8216;Black Rabbit&#8217; Opens Doors For Deaf Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/troy-kotsur\/\" id=\"auto-tag_troy-kotsur\" data-tag=\"troy-kotsur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troy Kotsur<\/a> is hoping the mobster role he plays on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/black-rabbit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-rabbit\" data-tag=\"black-rabbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Rabbit<\/a> will open further doors for deaf performers in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/in-cold-light-maika-monroe-acquired-saban-films-1236423207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Cold Light<\/a> star, who made history as the first male deaf actor to win an Oscar for his supporting role in CODA, portrays Joe Mancuso, the head of the criminal underworld. In the crime-thriller miniseries from Netflix, Jude Law\u2019s rising restauranteur is thrust into New York City\u2019s dark underbelly when his ne\u2019er do well brother (Jason Bateman) returns with loan sharks on his tail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m sure folks in the audience have really never seen a mobster who happens to be deaf. It was really fun and exciting for me to create this character,\u201d Kotsur told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/troy-kotsur-on-playing-a-mobster-in-black-rabbit-exclusive-11812838\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe added, \u201cIt was really fun for me to develop this character, a fresh take and a new perspective. It will open up new roles in the future, I hope. We\u2019re not just actors who use sign language, we\u2019re characters and we can play all different types of characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlack Rabbit, which had its <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/tiff-primetime-2025-lineup-lowdown-wayward-black-rabbit-1236481008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premiere at TIFF<\/a>, was created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman,\u00a0with a logline describing the project as a \u201cpropulsive thrill ride and character examination about the way an unbreakable bond between two brothers can shatter their world and everything in its orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso starring in the series, currently streaming on Netflix, is Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, \u1e62\u1ecdp\u1eb9\u0301 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9, Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Chris Coy, Dagmara Dominczyk, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesus, with Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales and Steve Witting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Kotsur is hoping the mobster role he plays on Netflix\u2018s Black Rabbit will open further doors for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[104004,185,171,4659,130247,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-244631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-black-rabbit","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-troy-kotsur","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115244075801964869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}