Hard Truths stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin talk to Metro about anger, mental health and lonely marriages.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page Thirty years after Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin and Mike Leigh joined forces for the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the powerhouse trio have reunited for Hard Truths. ‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way.
A sentiment Michele heartily echoes: ‘You have to separate yourself from it because sometimes so many things that you’re saying in character are so painful, you have to be really clear that that is the character,’ she reflects.
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