Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the ...
INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 ...
Gold Derby has been handicapping the 2025 Oscars since July, and each of the 23 categories has cycled through several frontrunners in the intervening months. However, some of our favorite movies, ...
“It’s just the women he’s drawn to,” Jean-Baptiste thinks. “He loves women. I hate to use the term ‘strong women’, but we are. And just look at his films!” Complex ...
It feels like going backwards in time - The London-born actress, who has been living in America for many years, said she ...
As a result, Jean-Baptiste's performance, electrifying as it is, is also steeped in emotional complexity; the more time we spend with Pansy, the more we see that her rage against the world arises ...
I don’t know what you’ll be doing in it, but we’ll have fun,’ ” Jean-Baptiste says. “I’d been yearning for that sort of experience again: the agency to create a character with somebody.
His performance is essentially an extended sigh, and we get it. But as Jean-Baptiste’s micro-expressions reveal, any catharsis Pansy feels from lashing out lasts a second. The marvel of her ...