NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. Directed by Mike Leigh, the searingly funny drama has flown somewhat under the radar ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste with Claire Rushbrook in Secrets ... The critical success of Hard Truths must be sweet for Leigh, too. After all, he struggled to raise the money to make the film, which ...
Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the brilliant Hard Truths. It is classic Mike Leigh: perceptive, painful, incredibly funny until it isn’t.
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager.
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Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop process, in which the director worked closely with his actors to create their characters from scratch. As a result, Jean-Baptiste's ...
Pansy’s the heart of writer-director Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” She’s played by the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose powerhouse performance could very well win her the Best Actress ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...
We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...
NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...