Like, you" - she gestures to me - "can't be reduced to just 'woman' or, you know, 'white', or whatever it is And this is existing in the grey areas, actually. Making the film opened up a lot of conversations between Hall and her mother that had previously been left unsaid. She adds: "I hope, sort of in the broadest sense, the thing that people take away [from the film] is, thinking about what the legacy of a life lived in hiding is.
And that doesn't just mean racial hiding, it means all the ways in which we're not showing up for ourselves completely. And how we can't because of how much society imposes something - especially black women. Watch Live. Passing director Rebecca Hall: 'My grandfather was African-American and he passed white for most of his life' Actress Rebecca Hall has moved behind the camera to write and direct Passing, a black and white film exploring the practice of black people who "passed" as white in the s.
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Rebecca Hall has appeared with many actors from the Marvel Universe in non Marvel films. September 26, Married Morgan Spector after they met while co-starring in a Broadway play Machinal the previous year. Mother, with husband Morgan Spector , of one child b. Her childhood celebrity crush was actor Robert Mitchum. There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it. One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film. I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level. I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either. I was the kid who grew up watching Bette Davis films. I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. But given that I seemed to have no way of probing my mother or her sisters further than I had—I let it lie. That is, until I started to spend more time in America. In America, I was a film actor. Like many a Brit living in the States, I discovered that I had a chance to define myself against a different set of assumptions and expectations, and that was, in a way, quite liberating.
At the same time, living there forced a particular confrontation with my instincts about my heritage. I rented my first apartment in New York in , the same year Barack Obama was elected president. But even if I was getting more detail, it was always out of context, tiles of a long-destroyed mosaic found in a ruin. But again, what did that mean for me? The only way I knew how to even approach this particular tangle was to do what I had previously avoided: talk about it.
The shock of recognition I felt was deeply moving. I was so moved by the emotional cost and complications described in the book that I sat down and wrote my adaptation almost immediately after finishing it, mostly as a way to sit longer with something that was so unexpectedly enlightening.
I would go on to direct the subsequent film, starring Ruth Negga as Clare and Tessa Thompson as Irene, which is released this month.
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