{"id":61984,"date":"2021-10-29T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61984"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:06:37","slug":"using-black-and-white-also-allowed-hall-to-cast-black-actresses-in-the-roles-shes-not-trying-to-fool-anyone-into-thinking-that-negga-or-thompson-is-white-shes-sim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61984","title":{"rendered":"Using black and white also allowed Hall to cast Black actresses in the roles. She\u2019s not trying to \u201cfool\u201d anyone into thinking that Negga or Thompson is white, she\u2019s simply trying to turn the film\u2019s deeply metaphorical ideas into a practical experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Using black and white [media] also allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Rebecca] Hall<\/a> to cast Black actresses in the roles. She\u2019s not trying to \u201cfool\u201d anyone into thinking that Negga or Thompson is white, she\u2019s simply trying to turn the film\u2019s deeply metaphorical ideas into a practical experience. The audience will have \u201cvery fixed ideas about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessa_Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruth Negga\u2019s<\/a> racial identity,\u201d Hall said, \u201cwhich gives me a position from which to destabilize those ideas and point out the limits of just reducing them to that one definition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kate Erbland, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Passing\u2019: Rebecca Hall Made One of the Year\u2019s Best Debuts, but for Years Nobody Would Fund It<\/a>,\u201d <em>IndieWire<\/em>, October 28, 2021. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/10\/passing-rebecca-hall-interview-1234674475\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using black and white [media] also allowed [Rebecca] Hall to cast Black actresses in the roles. She\u2019s not trying to \u201cfool\u201d anyone into thinking that Negga or Thompson is white, she\u2019s simply trying to turn the film\u2019s deeply metaphorical ideas into a practical experience. The audience will have \u201cvery fixed ideas about Tessa Thompson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24065,32210,28879,827,19672],"class_list":["post-61984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-indiewire","tag-kate-erbland","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ruth-negga","tag-tessa-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61984","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=61984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61985,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61984\/revisions\/61985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}