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 ...
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 ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Worthy of Another Trip to the Oscars for Her Brilliant, Biting Performance in Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' “Hard Truths” builds upon the humanistic director’s ...
In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Some 30 years on from Secrets & Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste has reunited with director Mike Leigh to give what critics are calling the performance of awards season. Radhika Seth meets the ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste quickly realised that being too peppy during rehearsals for Hard Truths was never going to work.