Rebecca Hall discusses making the move from acting to directing, her new racial-identity movie “Passing”, and more in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Passing”, Hall’s directorial debut, is having its world premiere on Jan.
30 at the Sundance Film Festival. It “follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.” The film stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as the two lead actresses, Irene and Clare.
Despite bosses having initial worries that Hall wasn’t the right person to helm a film about the Black American experience, upon discussion, they found out she was a BIPOC American whose mother is Black. “I
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