“The Simpsons” will have a deaf actor in its 33-year history


“The Simpson” will have a deaf actor for the first time in its 33-year history. They will use American Sign Language (ASL) in the groundbreaking episode.

“It’s really hard to do something for the ‘first time’ after 722 episodes. But I couldn’t be more excited about this one,” executive producer Al Jean said.

Sunday’s episode is titled “The Sound of Bleeding Gums.” CNN en Español review that focuses on Lisa Simpson, who discovers that her role model and her favorite musician, the late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, known as Encías Sangrantes Murphy in Latin America.

The character has a deaf son who needs a cochlear implant. Lisa gets a little carried away trying to help her son, Monk Murphy. “Loni proposed to turn Bleeding Gums Murphy’s son into a man who was born deaf and could never hear his father’s music,” Jean told CNN.

To make this episode they had the advice of two ASL specialists on the signs that the characters make in the episode. The specialists in sign language they reviewed the animations (rough versions of the show’s footage) to ensure that, despite the characters’ fingers being missing, the meaning of the words was conveyed correctly.

Sosthand said the episode was personal to her and a labor of love. Her brother Eli is hard of hearing in a family that loves jazz music.

“Having a brother, who is only a year older, who was born deaf, really shaped who I am as a person. So it’s a story not only close to my heart, but also to my identity,” the episode’s writer said.

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Lisa Simpson with the deaf character Monk Murphy in the episode that will come out on Sunday. (EXTERNAL SOURCE)

Deaf actor John Autry II, whose credits include “Glee” and “No Ordinary Family,” plays Monk.

In a statement, he called the role “life changing” for him.

“It’s about people who are hard of hearing and people who can hear coming together,” he said. “It’s part of history”.

The episode will also feature three children, Ian Mayorga, Kaylee Arellano and Hazel Lopez, from No Limits, a non-profit organization dedicated to deaf children. Seeing them record “Happy Talk,” a song from the musical “South Pacific” and featured at the end of the episode, was emotional for Sosthand.

“The song says: ‘If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?’ As I watched them record, I had tears in my eyes the whole time, and I realized that this is a dream come true for all of us,” he told the American news channel.

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Lisa Simpson in a scene with the deaf character Monk Murphy in the episode. (EXTERNAL SOURCE)

The landmark episode comes two weeks after “CODA”‘s big moment at the Academy Awards. CODA stands for Child of Deaf Adults, and the film is about the struggles of a hearing daughter who wants to be a musician instead of joining her deaf parents’ fishing business.

The idea for the show was in the works long before the movie, said Jean, the executive producer of “The Simpson“.

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