Breaking Baz: Michele Austin On How Her 30-Year Friendship With Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Mike Leigh Injected Truth Into ‘Hard Truths’
It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film 'Hard Truths,' starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, ...
'A journey of creativity': Marianne Jean-Baptiste on reuniting with Mike Leigh for 'Hard Truths'
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins Morning Joe to discuss her role in Mike Leigh's new film 'Hard Truths,' where she plays ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste Breaks Down Mike Leigh’s Unorthodox Development Process: ‘He Makes the Most Incredible Pieces of Work’
Leigh does not typically work off a script when creating his stories, but rather builds his films off improvisations ...
How does Mike Leigh make a movie? It’s complicated, but his actors wouldn’t have it any other way
Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunited with her 'Secrets & Lies' director to make the harrowing 'Hard Truths.' We spoke to them both ...
Review: Duck and cover, here comes Mike Leigh’s punishing ‘Hard Truths’
The director's latest misanthropic drama, following such films as "Bleak Moments" and "Naked," is a puckeringly sour delight, ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers ‘Hard Truths’ — and 2024’s best performance
She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...
‘Hard Truths’ Makes a Case for the Miserable — and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Greatness
The British actor and Mike Leigh have done more than given us another great collaboration. They've gifted us with a masterpiece of bruised humanity.
‘Hard Truths’: Read The Screenplay That Returns Seven-Time Oscar Nominee Mike Leigh To Modern London
Hard Truths, from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh, reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne ...
Movie review: ‘Hard Truths’ another cinematic gift from filmmaker Mike Leigh
In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in ‘Hard Truths’
Marianne Jean-Baptiste's performance in "Hard Truths" has earned her best reviews since she starred in Mike Leigh's “Secrets ...
‘It’s a Roller-Coaster Ride, Man’: Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Her Oscar-Tipped Performance in Hard Truths
It is almost 30 years since Jean-Baptiste and Leigh collaborated on a film—the cult 1996 comedy drama Secrets & Lies, which ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste Breaks Down Mike Leigh’s Unorthodox Development Process: ‘He Makes the Most Incredible Pieces of Work’
Though it would seem like Leigh is trying to get his actors to become their characters, Jean-Baptiste believes he has no interest in working with whoever she’s supposed to be playing.