Mila Davis Kent is a rising star in Hollywood. The youngster represents the ASL community well in Creed III.
“We have English. We have Spanish. We have ASL. And then we have the fighting language we explore [in the final fight],” Michael B. Jordan said of the film during a recent interview with IndieWire.
Those who have been following the story of Creed since the beginning know Adonis Creed’s wife, Bianca Creed, lives with progressive hearing loss. The possibility of the couple’s daughter, Amara (Mila Davis Kent), living with deafness is present from the start. The forthcoming film sheds light on Amara’s progressive hearing loss and ultimately the ASL community as a whole.
“It’s great because [the films] evolved that way,” Michael B. Jordan shared with IndieWire. “I had the ability to really just drop them in this world and see how the ASL family is living and let the audience go for a ride,” the film’s actor and director shared.
Going for a ride includes highlighting the importance of the father-daughter relationship. “Muhammad Ali was one of the models for Apollo Creed, and of course, he has a daughter, Layla,” Jordan shared. “So that was something that was stirring around in my head, how to make it fresh and different, and I kind of knew at the end of Creed that I wanted to have a daughter,” the actor continued.
“We were on the Just Mercy tour and Kobe Bryant hosted a screening. And Jamie Foxx has a strong relationship with his daughter, who was into basketball, she was playing basketball,” Jordan shared.
“And Kobe’s sitting there talking about Gianna and basketball and the Mamba Academy and everything. And I just remember stepping out of myself for a second, and I’m looking at these guys that I have real admiration for and hearing them talk about their daughters,” Jordan explained.
“I was like, ‘Man, I’m pulling from all of this right now for the movie.’ I wanted to honor these kinds of relationships and what it means to be a girl dad.”
Catch Creed III – starring Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Mila Davis-Kent, and more – in a theater near you!
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