Did you know that for BABY DRIVER... Edgar Wright wrote Joesph as a deaf Black man.

And CJ Jones was the only deaf actor to audition. Edgar said, “I started auditioning other very good actors who were pretending to be deaf, it made me feel immediately uncomfortable.“ CJ would spend three months with Ansel Elgort to hone his sign language with a tutor. And the chemistry they developed led to an even more realistic father-son relationship.
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