Seven reasons Mike Leigh is one of Britain's greatest filmmakers
Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
Hard Truths review: No Oscar nomination for Marianne Jean-Baptiste is criminal
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...
Review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste captivates in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’
You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...
How does Mike Leigh make a movie? It’s complicated, but his actors wouldn’t have it any other way
Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunited with her 'Secrets & Lies' director to make the harrowing 'Hard Truths.' We spoke to them both about Leigh's famous prep process.
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Review: ‘Hard Truths’ showcases the hardships of mental health and family trauma
“Hard Truths” follows the lives of Pansy ( Marianne Jean-Baptiste ), a depressed, confrontational woman who struggles with ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’
INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 ...
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Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on the difficult woman at the center of 'Hard Truths'
In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths." ...