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With another sensational performance in ‘Passing,’ Ruth Negga refuses to be pinned down

Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought. And not just because she stars as Clare Kendry, a fair-skinned Black woman who moves through life as a white woman, in “Passing,” Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel. No, Negga’s musings on identity stem back to her childhood in Ireland and England, where she was first introduced to the concept … Continue reading With another sensational performance in ‘Passing,’ Ruth Negga refuses to be pinned down

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A Different Kind of Love Story – LOVING the Film

From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, “Loving” celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed … Continue reading A Different Kind of Love Story – LOVING the Film

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