Godzilla’s Kaylee Hottle’s Sister Completing Last Movie After Her Death

Jasmine Hottle is keeping her sister Kaylee Hottle‘s memory alive.

After the Godzilla star died in a car accident at age 18 in July, her older sister is stepping in to complete Kaylee’s final role in What Doesn’t Kill Us, a superhero movie starring actors with real-life disabilities, writer Adam Mingo confirmed.

“Kaylee’s passing was an unimaginable tragedy, and her loss is felt deeply by everyone involved with the project,” Mingo told People in an interview published Nov. 11. “When we began discussing how to move forward, the possibility of Jasmine taking on her sister’s role emerged as something particularly meaningful.”

And including Jasmine, who like her sister is deaf, was more than a casting replacement, Mingo explained, because of her unique position to “preserve something of Kaylee’s legacy.”

Additionally, Jasmine’s ability to provide representation to her community was important to the filmmakers. In fact, Jasmine recently graduated as Valedictorian from Texas School for the Deaf, where Kaylee was a senior before she died of blunt-force injuries from the fatal single-vehicle collision in Ijamsville, Maryland, on July 21.