CODA Story of a Scene, Apple TV+

Siân Heder, the director of the Academy Awardnominated film CODA, describes how Troy Kotsur (Best Supporting Actor nominee) and Emilia Jones improvised one of the films most emotionally affecting moments. Stream CODA now on Apple TV+ Gifted with a voice that her parents cant hear, seventeenyearold Ruby (Emilia Jones), is the sole hearing member of a deaf familya CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the familys struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high schools choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia WalshPeelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, toughlove choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own drea