"By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with," Marianne Jean-Baptiste tells Newsweek.
The human psyche can contain irrational anger, leading to outbursts at strangers for minor offenses. Triggers for this rage ...
Yet that scene is a miracle precisely for what Jean-Baptiste does with it. The role couldn’t be more different from the ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is giving a family update after her daughter was forced to evacuate during the Los Angeles wildfires.
The Fiji Red Cross Society is launching a crucial initiative to tackle the growing threat of water-related disasters in rural ...
To say that the British actor and director Mike Leigh have given us their best collaboration to date is too mild a sentiment. They've gifted us with a masterpiece of bruised humanity ...
It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths, starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, in ...
But for Pansy, the unforgettable heroine of Mike Leigh’s film “Hard Truths” portrayed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, that simmering discontent is her all day, every day. It’s life, and she can’t break the ...
Actor James Woods fought back tears Wednesday during an interview with CNN as he talked about the devastation in the ...
Wicked” topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, landing a leading five nominations including ...
In the late 1990s, a time when popular art house films would play for months in theaters, Marianne Jean-Baptiste touched a nerve with moviegoers. As an adopted young Black woman in London who is ...
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