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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Passing" Director/Writer, Rebecca Hall

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We know Rebecca Hall for her acting work in films such as "Christine," "The Town," "The Prestige," and this year's "Godzilla vs. Kong" and "The Night House." At this year's Sundance Film Festival, she got the opportunity to show the world a whole new side of her as a filmmaker, making her directorial debut with "Passing," starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Rebecca was kind enough to spend some time talking with me about her directing ambition, the creative choices she had to make on the film, working with the actors, the story's ambiguous ending, and more! Be sure to check out the film now streaming on Netflix, listen down below, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the writer and director for passing, Rebecca Hall.

0:08.1

Pardon me, I don't mean to stare, but I think I know you.

0:12.6

Claire?

0:17.6

I'm trying to find out the history of the blonde you've brought along.

0:21.6

She's a girl from Chicago I used to know.

0:23.6

Princess from Chicago.

0:25.6

Things aren't always what they seem.

0:28.6

Bobby Dan.

0:29.6

Lots of people pass all the time.

0:34.6

It's easy for a Negro to pass for white. I'm not sure it'd be so simple for a white person pass for color.

0:40.3

So you haven't ever thought to?

0:42.3

What?

0:43.3

You ever thought of passing?

0:44.3

No, why should I?

0:45.3

Now I have everything I've ever wanted.

0:47.3

This is my husband, John Ballew.

0:51.3

Does he know?

0:53.3

You dislike Negroes, Mr. Bellew?

0:56.0

No, no, no, not at all.

0:57.0

I hate them.

1:03.0

Isn't she extraordinarily beautiful?

1:07.0

I suppose.

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