{"id":61969,"date":"2021-10-28T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61969"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:33:29","slug":"ruth-negga-on-her-latest-role-as-a-black-woman-passing-as-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61969","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Negga on her latest role \u2013 as a black woman passing as white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/entertainment-arts-59067060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ruth Negga on her latest role \u2013 as a black woman passing as white<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2021-10-27<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av-embeds\/59067060\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruth Negga<\/a> stars in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Passing<\/em><\/a>, a film which follows two black women living in 1920s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Clare Kendry played by Negga, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;passes&#8221; for white<\/a> and has a white husband who doesn&#8217;t know she&#8217;s black.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1929 book<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nella Larsen<\/a>, the film received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s director Rebecca Hall and star Ruth Negga, tell <em>BBC News<\/em> why their film feels so relevant for today&#8217;s audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Negga stars in &#8220;Passing,&#8221; a film which follows two black women living in 1920s New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13743,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[5697,8597,87,28879,827,4617],"class_list":["post-61969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ruth-negga","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969","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=61969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61970,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61969\/revisions\/61970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}