{"id":60517,"date":"2021-02-02T04:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60517"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:05:33","slug":"passing-stars-talk-rebecca-halls-directorial-debut-and-the-complexity-of-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60517","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Passing\u2019 Stars Talk Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Directorial Debut and the Complexity of Racial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/video\/rebecca-hall-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-passing-sundance-variety-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>\u2018Passing\u2019 Stars Talk Rebecca Hall&#8217;s Directorial Debut and the Complexity of Racial identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a><br \/>\n2021-02-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angelique814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Angelique Jackson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/0r6dMLQl-plsZnDJi.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Hall\u2019s<\/a> feature directorial debut \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passing<\/a>\u201d dives into the nuance of racial identity and the complex realities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racial passing<\/a>, with <em>Variety\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundance_Film_Festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundance<\/a> review touting Hall\u2019s work: \u201cThis radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of \u2018passing\u2019 \u2014 being Black but pretending to be white \u2014 ought to be too ambitious for a first-time filmmaker, but Hall\u2019s touch is unerring, deceptively delicate, quiet and immaculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intimate is a particularly choice word to describe the project, as the film\u2019s story holds personal significance for all its cast \u2014 including stars <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessa_Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tessa Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruth Negga<\/a>, both of whom are mixed race \u2014 but the project is particularly connected to Hall\u2019s personal story. Hall is the daughter of famed theater director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Hall_(director)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Hall<\/a> and legendary opera singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Ewing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maria Ewing<\/a>. 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\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that I really had language for passing. It was such a difficult area of conversation in my family,\u201d Hall recalls, explaining her personal connection to the material in conversation at the Variety Sundance Studio presented by AT&amp;T TV, just hours ahead of the film\u2019s Sundance premiere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article and watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/video\/rebecca-hall-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-passing-sundance-variety-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Hall\u2019s feature directorial debut \u201cPassing\u201d dives into the nuance of racial identity and the complex realities of racial passing, with Variety\u2019s Sundance review touting Hall\u2019s work: \u201cThis radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of \u2018passing\u2019 \u2014 being Black but pretending to be white \u2014 ought to be too ambitious for a first-time filmmaker, but Hall\u2019s touch is unerring, deceptively delicate, quiet and immaculate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[31279,87,28879,827,4617,19672,23493],"class_list":["post-60517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-angelique-jackson","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ruth-negga","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-tessa-thompson","tag-variety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60517","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=60517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60518,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60517\/revisions\/60518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}