Director Brad Anderson is gearing up for the release of his brand new action-thriller ‘The Silent Hour’ which is slated to arrive in theaters and on digital platforms on October 11th, and is discussing what is in store for moviegoers.
According to the official synopsis: “Boston Detective Frank Shaw (Joel Kinnaman) returns to duty after a career-altering injury leaves him with permanent hearing loss. Tasked with interpreting for Ava Fremont (Sandra Mae Frank), a deaf witness to a brutal gang murder, they find themselves cornered in a soon-to-be-condemned apartment building when the killers return to eliminate her. Cut off from the outside world, these two strangers must lean on each other to outsmart killers they can’t hear coming for their only hope of making it out alive.”
Anderson spoke about working with Kinnaman and Frank in an exclusive interview with ComingSoon.
” I think it’s that level of commitment and [he brings] that to whatever he does. I worked with him on the show called The Killing” he said of Kinnaman.
“That kind of put him on the map actually. Cool police procedural. I met him then and we really hit it off and I kinda really wanted to find something to work on together, a movie. I just think that he brings a kind of intensity and a realism to that intensity, but he also has a kind of emotional core that was really important for this movie, for this character. A guy who is struggling with hearing loss and loss in general, and just the way that he kind of confronts that, and ultimately, contends with it.”
Frank who is deaf and is an advocate for deaf actors in the industry.
“She was great. Sandra was lovely and great to work with. I had never had many encounters with deaf people, to be honest with you, before making the movie. So it was a learning experience for me, a major learning experience. Learning how to direct her and also just how to kind of tell our story in a way that was respectful and made sense to the deaf community. She brought a lot of that and helped us not just playing the character but helped the production in terms of figuring out how to do that.”
