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Leigh is standing near the elevator bank in a hotel lobby in the Flatiron district, doing one last round of pre-Oscar promotion in Manhattan for his latest movie, the domestic drama Hard Truths.

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.