Does that skill translate into learning sign language? How was that as a performance tool?
VF: Well, it wasn’t a tremendous effort. We went pretty quickly after the whole thing came together, so there wasn’t much pre-production, but Aryana Engineer was hard of hearing and we wanted to just have the easiest and fullest communication, so we all dabbled as much as we could in trying to learn the language beforehand. And then we could communicate with her just by speaking very loudly and gesticulating madly. PS: She was the most into it. I mean, to be honest, you got everyone going. VF: I think I was too, but Isabelle went far beyond me. Once I realized I could speak really loudly, I just focused on the script, making sure the script was accurate. PS: But you were the initial catalyst. You were very focused on learning it. You totally took off and I was way behind. But I think there’s sort of an interesting thing about that in the movie too. I do sign in the movie, but my connection to my family is pretty remote in that way. You just find yourself doing things as you would. I go
