Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with the Netflix film Passing, which also marked her first produced screenplay.
She adapted Nella Larsen’s novel about a Black woman passing for white in 1920s Harlem, and her friendship with another woman.Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga) were childhood friends.
By the time they reunite as adults, they’re living quite different lives. Irene is married to a doctor (Andre Holland) with whom she has children.
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