{"id":537420,"date":"2026-07-21T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537420\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:23:09","slug":"godzilla-actress-kaylee-hottle-18-dies-in-us-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537420\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Godzilla\u2019 actress Kaylee Hottle, 18, dies in US car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">She was nominated in 2024 for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">Her father, Joshua Hottle, first shared news of her death in American Sign Language in a tearful video posted to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">Texas School for the Deaf, where Hottle was a student, said on social media that her death was a \u201ctremendous loss\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur hearts are with Kaylee\u2019s family, friends, classmates, and everyone who knew and loved her during this incredibly difficult time,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this time, we have very limited information and ask that everyone respect the privacy of Kaylee\u2019s family and refrain from sharing or speculating about the circumstances surrounding the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was nominated in 2024 for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. Her father,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20391,56796,1081,3376,6876,3378,3944,3549,6179,7126,156,434,81960,264707,78,264706,15093,111,139,69,675,3048,9939,9938,3040],"class_list":["post-537420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-20391","tag-18yearold","tag-accident","tag-actor","tag-actress","tag-appeared","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-godzilla","tag-hottle","tag-in","tag-kaylee","tag-maryland","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-said","tag-states","tag-united","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}