PASSING Interview | Rebecca Hall Talks Racial Identity, Family Connection to Her Directorial Debut

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[@JakesTakesTV]

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[@ethanaleman]

"Irony of black and white movies is they are grey like life."

[@wrendor9465]

All the hues of grey..

[@xxletm3loveyouxx734]

How is she so brilliant? A true director. Looking through the eyes of directors through all the films i love amazes me.

[@skincarebagus1640]

OMG she's so smart and so articulate. Passing is an elegant, subtle, articulate yet gripping. A masterful work!

[@jadetrueblood3393]

Rebecca Hall is well spoken and has a natural charisma. Amazing interview.

[@jocieemma1978]

I’m 1/4 black and 3/4 white. She’s nailed it, and this film. Endlessly thankful that she brought this to the mainstream media. She nailed the erasing our history- and it’s so sad. Knowing my ancestors, seeing pictures and knowing they were BLACK farmers owning farms in the South (and had enslaved members) it’s so powerful. Extremely.

[@nero12345789]

Jake, once again I just want to send a kudos your way. Your questions are so incredibly thoughtful and meaningful and really shows me your connection and love of film. These stars and celebrities obviously see that and it just shows why you're on of the best!

[@AdonisTurner1992]

She was in the prestige! Love that movie. She’s also in the gift.

[@tgflux]

_Professor Marston and the Wonder Women:_ my favorite movie of 2017.

[@PurushaDesa]

My favourite performance in _The Prestige_ . She really elevated that role in what is mostly a director’s film.

[@bre970]

I would love to act in a black and white film 🎥. This movie was so wonderful I just love ❤️ the Harlem Resonance era.

[@jaskaransinghsidhu7353]

Lovely interview as always Jake! So are the questions you ask. Just mind-blowing. Thank you for that

[@user-vv4lo5yz3h]

Brilliant actress glad she started directing too 🙏🙏

[@2ndround415]

So glad I watched this interview

[@dmystfy]

Great questions as always. So passionate!

[@Stablemable2]

Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball Rebecca Hall would be a perfect young Carol Burnett.

[@paarthagarwal7320]

Really good interview, when I saw the trailer I was pretty confused but it seems to be getting good reviews which is great

[@DominoChild]

i love how you added the 'zoom box' at the end

[@shortyduwop9172]

Loved the movie. Beautifully done.

[@TANG3RINE95]

Great interview!

[@moneypenny1267]

I just love Rebecca

[@JevaisaNY]

I saw this film and it’s brilliant.

[@legionluciano]

These interviews are such a treat! I love seeing Jake's passionate and enthusiastic attitude. Makes my day every time :)

[@tay9sdaughter121]

I love love love that it was in black and white. I felt like I was watching a movie made in the 1920's.

[@wrendor9465]

Great cover, title, movie, acting, music, cinematography, story line and more!

[@ashleyjohnson1360]

Is it weird being this attracted to her with this haircut?? She is beaming with beauty 😍

[@tracymorgan5386]

That’s what happens when you fully embrace and totally proud of who are and where you come from. I myself have never seen her more beautiful and beaming.

[@PurushaDesa]

Please please please - make more people watch _Christine_ . The Oscars really missed that one because she was mesmerising.

[@darkness44mg]

Rebecca is the best actress

[@kfrancis1872]

My paternal grandmother passed in order to avoid domestic work. But when one of her kids would show up at the office she was dismissed. She lived Negro but passed for privilege. And overtly exaggerated her "blackness" around her own. Probably why she was a mean drunk. Not really accepted "just as". How people can still be tone deaf hearing these stories nowadays... how patriotic are we supposed to be when ur birth country made this an option for survival...or a decent semblance of life.

[@no-neoconfederatelosers9398]

Her grandparent didn’t pass. He identified as how he saw himself. Big difference.

[@kfrancis1872]

@@no-neoconfederatelosers9398 Big difference referring to what? My grandmother passed, she was a miserable drunk. What's ur comparison or rebuttal?

[@clearspiritnow]

@@no-neoconfederatelosers9398, not either or, but both and. He identified as how he saw himself, which allowed him to passed as "white.."

[@no-neoconfederatelosers9398]

@@kfrancis1872 Why is your experience and your family going to apply to every single person? This man not only became a Native American but he helped other Native Americans. He lived as a man of color in many ways was below even Black people for being native. In some places.

[@kfrancis1872]

@@no-neoconfederatelosers9398 Oh, ok...I get it now. I wrote 3 paragraphs pertaining to MY grandmother passing; literally not referring to ANYONE else... yet it's been taken as commentary on the featured video. Which my comments are not....moving on.

[@coreygarnett5826]

Ms. Hall is so beautiful and elegant.. I’ve always had a huge crush on her but now knowing that she’s 3rd black is even more beautiful.

[@peteradaniel]

I always thought this would be an interesting subject for her, because she essentially passes, having Maria Ewing as a mother with African American heritage.

[@WilliamsPinch]

In what world could Tess Thompson not be seen as black. I don’t think she could have played Clare, she has such obvious, identifiably, black features.

[@melavzla]

I mean, she looks mixed, very obviously mixed, but not white...

[@rashadwalker7203]

In the 1920’s white people had a very narrow minded view of what (black people looked like as a whole). During this time slavery had been over for about ended 60 plus years and I’m sure (the slave/plantation field) was the only image they had in their minds when they thought about what black people looked like….. especially black women who society said was not beautiful! Funny as it is today….Back in those days light skin girls like Tessa (who were educated) would pass for white…. At best women in her day would viewed as white or Spanish women with a nice tan!

[@DorothyDandridge]

Yes Tessa would not pass for white. She looks visibly mixed with Black and white - prominent African features and light brown skin. In an interview I read online, Rebecca Hall explained this and agreed that Tessa more so than Ruth could never pass white but Rebecca said that’s why she was purposeful to film in black and white to “neutralize” any color or complexion differences between Tessa, Ruth and the white actors.

[@DorothyDandridge]

@@rashadwalker7203 not in all cases especially in the South. White southerners knew who was white mixed or black. The color line was heavily policed. That’s why fair skinned or mixed Black people back then would identify themselves on US census as Native American, Mexican or Italian.

[@tierraweatherspoon3419]

Yes! Tessa can’t pass for white. I thought I was the only one who clocked that 😂. Also, for all intents and purposes, this Rebecca Hall person is a white woman. After so many generations removed the blackness is just gone 😴. Im so over it. But I can’t blame her for making a coin off her 1/200 hundredths of black blood 😒.

[@moonwatcher2001]

She is overwhelmingly attractive

[@abubakrabdullah6626]

Jazah Allah Khair

[@dpskipallen]

I loved this film when I saw it back at Sundance.

[@kennethrussell1158]

Did Robert Redford like it?

[@helicoptergunship]

Her mouth is so gorgeous

[@DorothyDandridge]

Brilliant film! Rebecca Hall is an amazing cinematographer and director. All the shots are purposeful including the film poster. No it e Tessa is in the half of the poster that is black and Ruth in the other half that is white? Also Rebecca chose Tessa to play the character who sometimes passes because Tessa is biracial and does not have the same light skin privilege as Ruth to pass white easily. Tessa’s character was wearing a hat and gloves and blotted white makeup on her face so she could try to pass. She made sure never to look at white people so they don’t see her full features under the hat or her brown hands under the gloves. Tessa’s character also doesn’t have the privilege to marry white or live in a white neighborhood like Ruth’s character so it’s clear she is trying to pass and not passing all the time because it depends on the space - passing for her is limited. Ruth’s character can also pass more easily because she has white family who raised her.

[@blueswan2175]

love the info -please grow your hair long again,please,please 🙏🏼

[@beautywing89]

5:23 Everyone in this movie has to be passing for something

[@SilverStrumer]

They should've cast Rachel Dolezal in this movie to make amends

[@no-neoconfederatelosers9398]

ONE DROP BS

[@stephaniewilliams168]

Lol like a chemistry project.

[@celticmulato2609]

Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Jasmine Guy would be better candidates for that movie, not the girl on the left on the cover.

[@elskeletor3566]

She looks really bad with short hair.

[@X.00896]

Almost all women do

[@elskeletor3566]

@@X.00896 Agreed, it destroys their feminine look.

[@Biggems4]

She looks gorgeous. I completely disagree

[@vgloveforlife]

Do you have anything of substance to say about the things she shared?

[@tgflux]

@@vgloveforlife Of course not, women only _exist_ for him, to judge "their feminine look."