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Marianne Jean-Baptiste In Hard Truths Reminds Us We’re Overlooking Older Black Women’s Mental Health
Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...
Bafta-nominated actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I prefer the roles out on the margins’
Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world ...
Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...
Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed ...
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
Leigh's 'Hard Truths' collaborators Bleecker Street, StudioCanal, Cornerstone and Film4 are reuniting on the untitled project ...
Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry
The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly ...
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Hard Truths is magnificent - the Oscars got it wrong
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...
Hard Truths review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama
Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...
‘It’s rare to see a middle-aged Black woman in pain this way on screen’
‘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 ...
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Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s graceful tragicomedy shows how irreplaceable he is in British cinema
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.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: ‘We tend to write off angry women’
Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: "Usually, women behaving badly aren't tolerated"
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...