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

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results ...

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 ...

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

She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste. When a furniture store employee dares to ask her if she needs help ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eventually End Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is too reel and too real. Maybe it’s because this is Black History Month that the complete Oscar lock-out of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths ...

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 ...

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Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths,' James Bond and ... with one actor in mind: Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They'd last collaborated in 1996's Secrets in Lies, a drama about an adopted woman meeting her ...

Mike Leigh isn't really either of those types of filmmakers ... Leigh says he started work on his latest movie, Hard Truths, with one actor in mind: Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They'd last collaborated in ...