Godzilla actor Kaylee Hottle dies in car crash at 18 – 1News

Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actor best known for her starring role in two Godzilla films, died in a car crash in Maryland early Tuesday morning (local time), the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said. She was 18. Hottle was one of two passengers in the car when it went off the road and hit a culvert in Ijamsville before 3 am. The driver, a 19-year-old Frederick man, was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the other passenger declined medical treatment, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Excessive speed is believed to be a factor in the crash, which is under investigation, the sheriff’s office said. Hottle was a native signer of American Sign Language, and her family members are also deaf. Her parents, Joshua and Ketsi Hottle, shared emotional video statements about her death on social media sites. “Privilege to be your mom, Kaylee Hottle,” Ketsi Hottle wrote on her video post. “I am taking a flight I would never like to take,” wrote Hottle’s father. In Godzilla vs. Kong and the sequel, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Hottle played an orphaned girl named Jia who sees beyond Kong’s threatening appearance and forms a
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