Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actress who played the character of Jia in two #GodzillavsKong franchise movies, has died. She was 18.⁠ ⁠ TMZ was first to report on Hottle's death in a tragic car crash on Tuesday morning in Maryland, as confirmed by her father, Joshua Hottle to the publication. Coming from an all-deaf family, Joshua Hottle also used American Sign Language (ASL) via a post on Facebook to convey his grief, alongside the caption: "I am taking a flight that I never would like to take."⁠ Hottle made her movie screen debut in both the original ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ movie at the age of 9 and then in the ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ sequel. She played the role of Jia, a deaf, orphaned indigenous Iwi girl rescued on Skull Island by Kong, and then raised by Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall), an anthropological linguist working for U.S. government monster research organization Monarch. Her character’s ability to communicate with the giant ape via ASL created poignant moments in the movi...