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Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the veteran actress.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama - 4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is ...
“I thought, while watching it, that someone is going to hit her,” Jean-Baptiste tells me, when we meet in the film company’s gleaming offices in north London. “Even though I know nobody does.
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As a result, Jean-Baptiste's performance, electrifying as it is, is also steeped in emotional complexity; the more time we spend with Pansy, the more we see that her rage against the world arises ...
“I have to take that with a pinch of salt,” Leigh told Jean-Baptiste during our interview, “because the idea that we would lug you all the way across the Atlantic and then have you do a mino ...
“It’s just the women he’s drawn to,” Jean-Baptiste thinks. “He loves women. I hate to use the term ‘strong women’, but we are. And just look at his films!” Complex ...
I don’t know what you’ll be doing in it, but we’ll have fun,’ ” Jean-Baptiste says. “I’d been yearning for that sort of experience again: the agency to create a character with somebody.