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A lot is going forAlaqua Cox’sEcho, but most important of all is its lead character.

While Echo got some screentime inHawkeye, she wasn’t given the same spotlight her new series offered.

One of those challenges the team faced was figuring outwhat is a close-up when youre shooting ASL?

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo, Echo ASL poster

So we really went through a bunch of tests.

And so you definitely need some space in a frame.

So we learned a lot about that quickly."

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo

So it was really, played with what that line was.

Like using slightly wider lenses, maybe a little bit closer to her.

So they’re more like medium closes and things like that.

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo

Yeah, so that was a fun new way to think of, like, what a close-up that?

Could an audience tell what’s going on without hearing the dialogue?'

I mean, they evolve or devolve, in that case, into, like, a cold-blooded killer.

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But yeah, it was fun to play with things like that.

It has to serve the story.

But what is the most distinctive visual flair inEcho?

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You know, this is Oklahoma… We’re not on any sort of other planet.

So really leaning into a more grounded vision of it.

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