But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.
Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.