{"id":49517,"date":"2016-10-19T14:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49517"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:05:54","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-loving-the-most-beautiful-love-story-ever-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49517","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind the Scenes of <\/strong><\/em>Loving<\/strong>, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vogue<\/a>
\n2016-10-17 (November 2016)<\/p>\n

Danzy Senna<\/strong><\/a>
\nphotographed by Mario Testino<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPhotographed by Mario Testino<\/a>, Vogue<\/em>, November 2016<\/small><\/p>\n

Meet Ruth Negga<\/a> and Joel Edgerton<\/a>, the brilliant stars of <\/em>Loving<\/a>, Jeff Nichols\u2019s<\/a> sweeping portrait of an interracial couple f\u0131ghting for their right to marry in 1950s V\u0131rginia.<\/em><\/p>\n

We enter the story in 1958, in rural Virginia<\/a>. A woman and a man stand in an open field of grass; she is telling him she is pregnant. There is a hint of worry in her luminous dark eyes, but the man assures her that they will get married and build a home together. The opening scene of Loving<\/em>, Jeff Nichols\u2019s quietly devastating new film, feels less like a beginning and more like a happily-ever-after ending. But because this is 1950s Virginia, and the woman is black and the man is white, the story does not unfold in the way of fairy tales. For Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving\u2014a real-life couple played in the film by Ruth Negga<\/a> and Joel Edgerton<\/a>\u2014the seemingly straightforward act of getting married becomes a dangerous and transgressive act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With its lush cinematography, Loving<\/em> is a visual paean to the 1950s, but it is also a fierce interrogation of the hypocrisies of that era. It traces the arc of the Lovings\u2019 struggle to live as husband and wife at a time not so long ago when it was illegal in sixteen states to marry someone of a different race. As the Lovings are forced to leave their tight-knit, working-class community and live in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, around them swirls language that evokes the present debate on gay marriage. \u201cIt\u2019s God\u2019s law,\u201d the sheriff tells the couple after their harrowing middle-of-the-night arrest. \u201cA robin\u2019s a robin, a sparrow is a sparrow.\u201d As Edgerton says, \u201cThat\u2019s the double beauty of the film. It\u2019s a racial period piece, but it also echoes very loudly today.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Vogue 2016-10-17 (November 2016) Danzy Senna photographed by Mario Testino Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, November 2016 Meet Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, the brilliant stars of Loving, Jeff Nichols\u2019s sweeping portrait of an interracial couple f\u0131ghting for their right to marry in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,5,459,8,20,693],"tags":[1340,20082,20081,25255,70,25253,25254,2754,1335,827,25252],"class_list":["post-49517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-danzy-senna","tag-jeff-nichols","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-loving","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-mario-testino","tag-mildred-jeter","tag-mildred-loving","tag-richard-loving","tag-ruth-negga","tag-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49518,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517\/revisions\/49518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}