Millicent Simmonds Co-Writes and Stars in New Thriller, Grace With a Deaf Protagonist
It's called Grace
Photo credit: Stephanie Diani via Deadline
I love Millicent Simmonds, the actress who gained fame playing the daughter of John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s characters in A Quiet Place and its two sequels (the latter of which is currently filming).
And now she’s co-writing and starring in a new thriller! Hooray! The movie is called Grace and, according to Deadline, will be about “a deaf teenager who unravels the violent secrets of her family’s buried past.” Simmonds co-wrote the script with filmmakers Ari Costa and Eren Celeboglu, who made the 2003 horror movie All Fun and Games, and will be producing the film with them.
The movie will be the debut film from the Inevitable Foundation’s Inevitable Studios. Representatives of the company called the film “a commercial story first that happens to center a deaf protagonist.”
I am VERY excited to see this thing!
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
