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Now we have devastating information to report out of Hollywood at this time:
Kaylee Hottle — the deaf actress finest identified for her function in Godzilla vs. Kong — has handed away.
She was simply 19 years previous.
Information of Hottle’s dying comes courtesy of her father, Josh Hottle, who shared the information in a Fb submit earlier than confirming it to TMZ:
In his Fb video, Josh said that Kaylee had been killed in a automotive accident, and he was getting ready to fly to Maryland to establish her physique.
“I’m taking a flight that I by no means want to take,” he tearfully advised his viewers.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2007, Kaylee was raised in Austin, the place she attended the Texas College for the Deaf.
She began appearing at 9 years previous with a business for Glide, a video messaging app widespread throughout the deaf and hearing-impaired communities.
In 2021, she starred alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Corridor, and Alexander Skarsgard in Godzilla vs. Kong.
Skarsgard and Corridor earned reward for studying ASL to be able to talk with Kaylee on set.
“It’s her first film,” Skarsgard raved to Junkee on the time.
“It’s fascinating how snug she is in entrance of the digital camera and the way shortly she takes notes from the director Adam [Wingard],” he continued, including:
“He’ll clarify one thing and she or he’ll be like ‘obtained it, obtained it’ then she’ll simply do it and everybody’s like, ‘The f–ok?’ She’s so skilled and … there’s a lot occurring on her face. Her expression and the subtleties of that’s fascinating to observe.”
Hottle reprised her function as Jia, a deaf lady who lives on Cranium Island, for the 2024 movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Our condolences exit to Kaylee’s family members throughout this enormously troublesome time.
