Why ‘CODA’ Kept a Flub by Star Emilia Jones in the Finished Film | Wrap Video
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Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast – a precursor for the Best Picture Oscar category, where “CODA” is favored to be one of the ten nominees. And Kotsur, Durant and Matlin were all present for the filming of Jones’s most difficult and moving scene. In the movie, Ruby is accompanied by her family to Boston, where she has an appointment to audition for a prestigious performing arts school.
Her audition piece is Joni Mitchell’s iconic “Both Sides Now.” Ruby, spotting her family watching from the balcony during her audition, sings with her voice and via American Sign Language. For Jones, one of the challenges was that Ruby should not appear as if she’s performing. If the rendition was too smooth or confident, it would not seem convincing for the character.So the day before filming the scene, Jones rehearsed the song with the movie’s two sign language directors.
“Then I stayed up until 4 a.m. and slept for two hours,” the actress said with a smile. “I learned the whole song.
I knew that the only takes they could use in the edit were takes where my sign language was accurate and all the singing was recorded live on set.”Jones acknowledged the challenge of singing and signing at the same time. “It was kinda like tapping your head and rubbing your tummy in the scariest way possible,” she said. “Sign language really allows you to get out of your head.
It’s such a beautiful, physical language.”The scene was filmed towards the end of production, a bit of timing which proved very touching for Jones, as she was close to saying goodbye to her movie family. In the finished film, she explained, you can see a small mistake in her performance of the song, which speaks volumes about how she was feeling. “The moment when I
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