LOS ANGELES — Performer Marilee Talkington is teaching fellow blind and low vision actors.
For more than a month the Access Acting Academy has been preparing, six days a week. It’s totally free.
Talkington designed it just for actors like her.
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“I act well that’s how I act! I act well! I act with my full being. You know it’s so funny people say ‘how do you act when you’re blind?’ It’s like you just act,” said Talkington.
Talkington was born with cone-rod dystrophy. She has some peripheral vision, but stage lights can blind her.
Most recently she was in Apple TV’s See where blindness is the central theme.
Talkington says it is not easy getting the industry to cast blind people for blind roles. Her course isn’t just about learning a craft, but also changing the profession.
“I think the actors are going to actually come out of this and teach the industry that they’ve been missing something quite special for a very long time,” said Talkington.