Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the brilliant Hard Truths. It is classic Mike Leigh: perceptive ...

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s something really powerful about that,’ Michele tells Metro about the multi-Bafta-nominated feature already making waves for Black British representation in the film industry.

In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama - 4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Je

Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018) and Mr Turner (2014),

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living directors, reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste nearly thirty years after her cast her in the exceptional Secrets & Lies for a new hard-hitting drama.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film Secrets & Lies, which led to Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the performance of a lifetime

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) delivers this pithy observation ... Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has honed a unique ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truths sets the tone for this telling familial drama.