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Mike Leigh: ‘If you think my film’s about race, you’re the one with the problem’
His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...
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Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such classics as High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls, and Mr. Turner says when a journalist meeting him for an interview ...
Mike Leigh Calls America ‘Trump Land’: ‘It’s Hard Even to Begin to Articulate the Worry’
Mike Leigh calls America 'Trump Land' and worries that the country's population doesn't fully grasp the threat he poses.
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Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film
In an interview with The Times, Leigh, 81, responded to those questioning whether he had the right, as a white filmmaker, to direct a project featuring an almost entirely Black cast.
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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...