Actors on a Mike Leigh film set don’t talk about motivation, and that's fine by “Hard Truths” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who relishes the rehearsal process on his movies. In the latest ...

Nearly 30 years after Marianne Jean-Baptiste received an Oscar nomination for her first collaboration with director Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies, the pair are back together with Hard Truths.

Can't stand them. SIMON: Pansy is played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste in what The New Yorker calls a performance for the ages. And Mike Leigh, the seven-time Oscar-nominated director, and Marianne ...

After a wild Oscar season, the 97th Academy Awards are now just days away—and while a handful of races are all sewn up, ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste quickly realised that being too peppy during rehearsals for Hard Truths was never going to work.

a middle-aged Black woman named Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) wakes up screaming. What was her nightmare? Does she live one? Could she be one? Hard Truths, Mike Leigh’s first film in six years ...

Joshua Encinias: How did you come up with the name Pansy for Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character and should the audience derive any meaning from it? Mike Leigh: No, they shouldn't. I mean ...

Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break ... Leigh’s latest film, Hard Truths, follows Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a bitter housewife who takes out her consternation on her husband ...

At just 25, Madison was the youngest nominee and was also nominated for the ‘Rising Star’ award. Her win is something of an ...

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, news of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker ... earlier in January – stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a woman wracked by ...