Marlee Matlin said she and President Joe Biden bonded over growing up with disabilities.
During her speech at The Hollywood Reporter's “Raising Our Voices: Setting Hollywood’s Inclusion Agenda” luncheon at The Maybourne Beverly Hills on Wednesday, the actress revealed she and President Joe Biden bonded over growing up with disabilities during the "The president spoke about growing up as someone who stuttered," Matlin, 56, said, via a sign language interpreter, adding that the president spoke with the cast in the Oval Office for an hour.
"It was his grandmother, he told us, who wisely saw things a different way. She said to him, 'Rather than keep the faith, better to spread the faith,'"Matlin continued."All of us just looked at each other somewhat astonished, because here he is, the president of the United States, and he got it.
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