Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
Hall and stars Ruth Negga and Andre Holland spoke during the panel for the Netflix drama at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season showcase.
“She called me up in tears when she first saw it and she just said, ‘You’ve liberated us,’ ” Hall said. “I grew up observing my mother and thinking about the psychological impact of being brought up in an environment where you weren’t allowed to talk about something. To me, she always looked like a Black woman. I was saying to her, ‘Tell me about this. What are we? Tell me the story.’ She didn’t know. It’s not that she wouldn’t. She couldn’t. She was respecting her father’s wishes.
Hall and stars Ruth Negga and Andre Holland spoke during the panel for the Netflix drama at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season showcase.
“She called me up in tears when she first saw it and she just said, ‘You’ve liberated us,’ ” Hall said. “I grew up observing my mother and thinking about the psychological impact of being brought up in an environment where you weren’t allowed to talk about something. To me, she always looked like a Black woman. I was saying to her, ‘Tell me about this. What are we? Tell me the story.’ She didn’t know. It’s not that she wouldn’t. She couldn’t. She was respecting her father’s wishes.
- 12/4/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
MTV has announced the nominees for the 35th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, which include a few new categories and are missing a couple of others. Just like the MTV Movie and TV Awards, which consolidated the races for Best Male Performance and Best Female Performance into Best Performance in a Show and Best Performance in a Movie, the 2018 VMAs have done away with gendered categories.
Instead, fans can vote online for Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and many more regardless of sex. Men have a slight majority in the top category, where there are five men and four women represented, counting collaborations. Those Video of the Year nominees are Ariana Grande (“No Tears Left to Cry“), Childish Gambino (“This is America“), Drake (“God’s Plan”), Beyonce and Jay-z (“Apeshit”), Bruno Mars and Cardi B (“Finesse”), and Camila Cabello and...
Instead, fans can vote online for Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and many more regardless of sex. Men have a slight majority in the top category, where there are five men and four women represented, counting collaborations. Those Video of the Year nominees are Ariana Grande (“No Tears Left to Cry“), Childish Gambino (“This is America“), Drake (“God’s Plan”), Beyonce and Jay-z (“Apeshit”), Bruno Mars and Cardi B (“Finesse”), and Camila Cabello and...
- 7/16/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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