{"id":62158,"date":"2021-11-09T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62158"},"modified":"2021-11-09T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:54:46","slug":"tessa-thompson-delves-into-the-subtext-of-passing-none-of-us-fit-too-squarely-in-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62158","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Thompson Delves Into the Subtext of \u2018Passing\u2019: \u2018None of Us Fit Too Squarely in Boxes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/features\/tessa-thompson-passing-subtext-viva-maude-1235099237\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Tessa Thompson Delves Into the Subtext of \u2018Passing\u2019: \u2018None of Us Fit Too Squarely in Boxes\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><br \/>\n2021-11-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angelique814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angelique Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/features\/tessa-thompson-passing-subtext-viva-maude-1235099237\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tessa-Thompson-Variety-Facetime.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Ryan Pfluger \/ <em>AUGUST<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passing<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessa_Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Thompson<\/a> stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harlem<\/a> amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renaissance<\/a>, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Holland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andr\u00e9 Holland<\/a>) and their two sons is turned upside down when she reconnects with Clare Kendry (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruth Negga<\/a>), a childhood acquaintance who\u2019s since begun passing for white and is married to a wealthy (and racist) businessman named John (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Skarsg%C3%A5rd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>). The movie, which marks <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Hall\u2019s<\/a> feature directorial debut, recently earned five <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gotham_Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gotham Award<\/a> nominations, including a lead performance nod for Thompson. Beyond her own acknowledgment, Thompson explains, those accolades represent something more. \u201cIt was so hard to get the film made because of the subject matter and because it\u2019s shot in black and white,\u201d she tells <em>Variety<\/em>. \u201cWhen movies like this do well, all that does is make room for more stories like this to be told.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/features\/tessa-thompson-passing-subtext-viva-maude-1235099237\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Thompson Delves Into the Subtext of \u2018Passing\u2019: \u2018None of Us Fit Too Squarely in Boxes\u2019 Variety 2021-11-05 Angelique Jackson, Reporter Ryan Pfluger \/ AUGUST In \u201cPassing,\u201d Tessa Thompson stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in Harlem amid the Renaissance, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (Andr\u00e9 Holland) and their two sons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[32002,31962,31279,87,28879,827,19672,23493],"class_list":["post-62158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-alexander-skarsgard","tag-andre-holland","tag-angelique-jackson","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-ruth-negga","tag-tessa-thompson","tag-variety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158","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=62158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62160,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158\/revisions\/62160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}