Passing Interview with Director Rebecca Hall
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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Judith Sol sits down with Director Rebecca Hall to talk about her new movie Passing on Netflix.
Logline
Based on the novel by Nella Larsen, the movie follows two black women (Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga) who can pass as white and choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 New York.
Synopsis
Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.
Acclaimed upon its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, PASSING marks the directorial debut of Rebecca Hall, who also adapted the screenplay. The film intimately uses the notion of “passing” to explore not just racial identity but gender and the responsibilities of motherhood, sexuality and the performance of femininity. PASSING also stars Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Alexander Skarsgard; and is produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi (p.g.a.), Forest Whitaker (p.g.a.), Margot Hand (p.g.a.), Rebecca Hall (p.g.a.).
Run time
98 minutes
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I am Cuban and Puerto Rican. I can't imagine this one drop rule. It's actually not human culture. Our families in Latin America have been race mixing through MARRIAGE for 500 years. The birth records of one of my ancestors was an African man who MARRIED a Spanish woman in 1640's in Puerto Rico. Another in Cuba was a MARRIAGE between an African woman from the area of modern day "Senegal" with a Spanish upper class merchant in the 1700's in Cuba. This was all during the African enslavement period. Yet in Latin America things weren't ever as rigid racially as they are in North America. People MARRIED Africans having children, passing down wealth and African culture to their mixed race offspring. America created a very odious unnatural anti black CULTURE, lying on Africans, taking away their historical achievements to justify their own culpability in creating a society based on a MENTAL NEUROSIS. What a sick society.
Would you want to move here after finding out how we are casted in the caste system here? Its crazy that people want to come to a racist country like ours to say they want a better life. A better life primed upon needing my tribe at the bottom as that foundation holding up the great fallacies that makes brown people want to come here for their 'better life's we don't even really get as legacy citizens.
Rebecca has given way for deeper, wider discussions but she isn't herself equipped to processing Passing beyond her family's complicity in it. She's a badass for no longer assisting her family in their shame but I wonder if she knows that other brown ethics knew America had Passers but said nothing about it. No one had courage to speak up on it be ause its all intertwined in optimizing positionality. Beyonce never talks about her light skinned privilege...never. But her dad talked about. No one talks about her yoyo daliances in benefitting on Passing as Not Like The Rest Of Them which is another incarnation of Passing when you play up it as your strategy for White Approval. Like a jujitsu.
Not all the Bad Guys are Whites. It is mostly us who keep this going because of the ability to a next strategy over other Blacks in opportunity. American Anti-Black racism has a lot of Black Villains in almost all of us who are also victims of this. We are insane.
Preach sister you spoke well but I am also partially Latin Caribbean and even if our societies were not as rigid and anti human as that of theUS LATINIDAD is still a concept based upon white supr3macy where theidentity of the colonizers is placed at the CENTER of who we are. Original Latinos are the southern Europeans not us and the myth of Triracialism was also used to clearly promote the idea of mestizaje as a progress from our Africanness and Native heritage. So yes and no
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga are not black women, they are both bi-racial, which is fitting to the text.
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To the hostess: You eluded that you hadn't heard of it but then had to look into it because of your own curiosity. That is the criminality of the double-sided shame of America by Whites and Blacks to act (without clarity) like this isn't actively practiced daily transacting by Descendants of Chattel Slavery in America. Our schools--meaning broad psychology and public health has jumped around ducking to go into this and the ramifications it has had on the American fabric and toll it has taken on Black (inability to) Trust.
Rebecca's understanding of Passing is rather rudimentary and yet fine as a simplistic primer on the act. I'm dark-skinned with African phenotypical features not considered attractive. I'm actually not interested in the film because I think the way its packaged is too easy in letting the more sophisticated ways lighter Blacks and biracial play upon Tokenism which is more insidious than Passing off the hook. I get Rebecca is having a Come To Jesus moment but she will still live as White and White Adjacent. She doesn't need or deserve reparations for she has lived as White upon the economies of how racism works.
One can empathize at some who in fear during Jim Crow found it as an armor of bitter luck. As one passed who didn't plan on it. And then there were and still are the corrupted souls who hated being dark and want/ed to be White.
Tokenism is more relative because it encompasses the motivations behind passing that just isn't about fear. Tokenism is about the incentive program to play parts for Whites while playing cards that one is proud to be Black even though having dubious forensic behavior towards fellow Blacks (I.e. Meghan Markle who just tapped into Blackness after meeting Harry who wanted an trophy to one-up his bro' about being the most relevant royal). Rebevva has a way to go in understanding us Blacks aren't always so innocent and pure in anti-Black racism.
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I understand that Ruth and Tessa are two of the few of the little to choose from sought after A-list Black actresses on the heap but Ruth should not have been casted. Someone like Jennifer Beals (who passes and admits she is of Black ancestry) or Trojian Bellisaro (who actually passes in real-time as White and hides from us) would have been better phenotypical archetypes to make the point. Zendaya could have played the part and she is world famous. Ruth just seems so otherworldly and beyond race. I don't see her having any identity because she is just that different looking and sounding than American. Love her enormously but just not for needing her to also play a Descendant of US Chattel Slavery. Its not believable. That something about being American even as a Passer has to come across and Ruth doesn't do it.
When will the British stop trying to think they can all play us?
When Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned was made, it didn't go looking for British biracials to play Descendants of US slavery American Creoles. Ruth is fascinating but not as my tribe. Tessa being half Mexican is however still all of our tribe though because its in her essence. Its an essence Ruth doesn't have though. Stop hiring them to replace us, Rebecca. Passing is about US ugly heritage--not British.
No comment on anything your saying except to say Ruth Negga is Irish-Ethopian, not British. That's an important distinction to Irish people.
@@ikeaboy_damo Thanks for the added insight of her sub-distinction. She's still part of the UK/Commonwealth--so categorizing her as British is the laziest way for me to typify that she most definitely is connected with London casters that got her embedded. Its all the same on the macro when distinguishing she ain't my tribe and she's another Global Black actress hired to play root roles of American Descendants of Slavery. Why do we need the Commonwealth Blacks to portray us when we created what they cannabalize of us?
But your added clarification does explain why she is so rarified in her talent and essence: she's not British Black, or Canadian Black, or even Austrailian Black where most of the casting feeds from. There was this actress (Maria Stem) from one of the Scandanavian who ventured into doing the same thing because they all want to erase us by flattening us so they can work.
Rebecca Hall is just getting her toes into processing passing. She has no idea that sge is literally one of the exploiters in Flattening us (Flat Blackness) because she thinks all Blackness is the same and equal and deserves equal treatment. In glad Sarah Silbverman was the first White Woman with Liberal clout to point out Hollywood has this fixation in erasing Jewish actresses from playing themselves. Our actresses are too scared. Have no tribal pride. No ethical courage to say it loud that tgey aren't working rightfully to portray their ownselves because Hollywood has this fixation in erasing us. They think Global Blacks are more worthy. Rebecca needs to front this next.
Passing ain't just about her primer. Global Blacks 'pass' as us so they can work/profit off of us. I know so many college degree Black actors who never got privileged interest because of this phenomen of 'erasing us in Hollywood' various ways. Even a dark British novelist reported that of her bestseller book that got her a production deal, she was told to cast the lead as light-skinned when the book is about a dark-skinned character. So an interloper of the UK is even told to erase skin tone authenticity in her character in dealing with US Hollywood White execs. Erasure, Passing, Flattening and Tokenisn. is beyond Race 102 where Rebecca is.
Thanks again for the tidbit about Ruth. Now it explains her enigma a lot in why I didn't see her as Black and just, Other with brown skin.