'Passing' Stars And Director Rebecca Hall On The Complexity of Racial Identity
Rebecca Hall's feature directorial debut "Passing" dives into the nuance of racial identity and the complex realities of racial passing, with Variety's Sundance review touting Hall's work: "This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of 'passing' — being Black but pretending to be white — ought to be too ambitious for a first-time filmmaker, but Hall’s touch is unerring, deceptively delicate, quiet and immaculate." Intimate is a particularly choice word to describe the project, as the film's story holds personal significance for all its cast -- including stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, both of whom are mixed race -- but the project is particularly connected to Hall's personal story. Hall is the daughter of famed theater director Peter Hall and legendary opera singer Maria Ewing. And though the British actor presents as white, Hall in fact comes from a mixed-race background, with a generational history of passing on her maternal grandfather's side. "I don't think that I really had language for passing. It was such a difficult area of conversation in my family," Hall recalls, explaining her personal connection to the material in conversation at the Variety Sundance Studio presented by AT&T TV, just hours ahead of the film's Sundance premiere. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscribe / variety / variety / variety
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