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Awards Chatter

Ruth Negga - 'Loving'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The best actress Oscar contender reflects on her biracial heritage, getting cut out of '12 Years a Slave' and tapping into 'the spirit' of one half of the couple at the center of the landmark 1967 inter-racial marriage Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 91 of awards chatter the

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Hollywood reporters awards podcast I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest

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today is

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someone who I am convinced is about to become a big star and quite possibly

0:36.7

a best actress Oscar nominee Ruth Nega.

0:40.3

The diminutive soft-spoken 34-year-old Ethiopian-born Irish actress has been the toast of the town ever since May when people first saw her performance in Jeff Nichols Loving at Can.

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In it, she plays Mildred Loving, one half of the couple who were the

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plaintiffs in the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case on interracial marriage, Loving

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versus Virginia. But in fact, Negah is no overnight sensation.

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She's been hard at work for over a decade,

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having first established herself in the theater

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and then on film as the pregnant girlfriend of an IRA terrorist in Neil Jordan's 2005 drama

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Breakfast on Pluto. She went on to distinguish herself in a number of TV movies,

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especially the 2011 BBC production Shirley Shirley, in which she played Dame Shirley Bassie,

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and on a number of TV series,

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