{"id":61605,"date":"2021-09-23T01:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61605"},"modified":"2021-09-23T01:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:54:04","slug":"passing-trailer-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-star-in-netflix-movie-it-landed-at-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61605","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Passing\u2019 Trailer: Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga Star In Netflix Movie It Landed At Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Passing\u2019 Trailer: Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga Star In Netflix Movie It Landed At Sundance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline Hollywood<\/a>
\n2021-09-21<\/p>\n

Patrick Hipes<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Managing Editor<\/p>\n

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Netflix<\/a> made a splash at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival<\/a> when it acquired Rebecca Hall\u2019s<\/a> Passing<\/em><\/a>, the drama starring Tessa Thompson<\/a> and Ruth Negga<\/a>. Hall, making her directorial debut, adapted the film from the 1929 novel<\/a> by Nella Larson<\/a>. Now the streamer is prepping for the film\u2019s New York Film Festival<\/a> slot October 3, after which it will get a theatrical release followed by a debut on the service November 10.<\/p>\n

The pic, shot it black and white, tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga), who can \u201cpass\u201d as white<\/a> but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a> in late 1920s New York<\/a>. After a chance encounter, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene\u2019s husband (Andr\u00e9 Holland<\/a>) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. Irene soon finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and the the story becomes one about obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities…<\/p>\n