Like her character Ava, actress Sandra Mae Frank is deaf, although not from birth. Frank lost her hearing when she was three years old, and went on to become a stage actress before she broke into television and movies. She has since been a proponent of casting more deaf actors in mainstream cinema.
Second movie in two years with "Silent" in the title and starring Joel Kinnaman having to fight criminals after getting impaired early on in the movie (the other one being O Silêncio da Vingança (2023)).
Both Joel Kinnaman and Mark Strong have been in the DC Universe: Kinnaman as Rick Flag in Esquadrão Suicida (2016) and O Esquadrão Suicida (2021), and Strong as Thaddeus Sivana in Shazam! (2019).