8. In 2020, Millicent partnered with Rafi Nova to design a custom transparent mask allowing others to easily read lips and share facial expressions.

Can Millicent Simmonds speak?

Simmonds and her family answered Krasinski's questions for writing a screenplay about a family with a deaf child. The filmmakers hired an ASL interpreter for Simmonds, so that signed and spoken language could be interpreted fluently on set.

Can Millicent Simmonds hear at all?

Simmonds is actually deaf in real life. Born in Utah in the US, she lost her hearing due to medication overdose before she turned one year old. ... That doesn't make sense to me,” said Simmonds in an interview with Variety in May when she was asked how she felt about hearing actors getting cast as deaf characters.