Rebecca Hall discusses her new film 'Passing'

[@estellacohen7122]

I'm going to watch Passing for third time.......I've got something new out of it each time I watch it!

[@wrendor9465]

This movie is so on time! It is right on time for so many reasons and in so many ways. Thank you Rebecca Hall and cast for this masterpiece!! We need more!!!

[@MA-yh2ko]

What's interesting to me was when Irene initially pushed the window open, I was prepared for Irene herself to go thru that open window.

[@sumanaspirit]

Outstanding questions from the host and audience, and honest, enlightening answers.

[@lf1496]

I am Cuban and Puerto Rican. I can't imagine this one drop rule. It's actually not human culture. Our families in Latin America have been race mixing through MARRIAGE for 500 years. The birth records of one of my ancestors was an African man who MARRIED a Spanish woman in 1640's in Puerto Rico. Another in Cuba was a MARRIAGE between an African woman from the area of modern day "Senegal" with a Spanish upper class merchant in the 1700's in Cuba. This was all during the African enslavement period. Yet in Latin America things weren't ever as rigid racially as they are in North America. People MARRIED Africans having children, passing down wealth and African culture to their mixed race offspring. America created a very odious unnatural anti black CULTURE, lying on Africans, taking away their historical achievements to justify their own culpability in creating a society based on a MENTAL NEUROSIS. What a sick society.

[@cerezal22]

💯💯💯

[@Kayodoms]

Latin America is extremely racist and colorist lol..

[@athena608]

I'm Puerto Rican too, and yes the US one-drop anti-miscegenation rule is uniquely terrible (and is belied by how much white Euro DNA there still is in modern-day African-American folk!). But let's not pretend that Latin America is some kind of mixed-race paradise compared to the United States. Puerto Rico ended slavery in the 1870s, *after* the United States did. Cuba only ended it in 1886! Brazil, 1888! If Latinos are so much more racially enlightened, then explain why Celia Cruz, patron saint of Cuban music, was often discriminated against in Cuba (banned from hotels, etc.) before she came to the US. Explain to everyone what "blanqueamiento" (whitening) means, or what "hay que mejorar/arreglar la raza" ("we have to improve/fix the race") refers to. Or "pelo bueno" (good hair). Or my personal /sarcasm/ favorite, the way people used to take a high and mighty person down a peg by saying "y tu abuela, ¿dónde está?" ("Where's your grandma?", implying that the person hid their grandma away when company came to "look better" i.e. pass for whiter when they were just as mixed as everyone else). We may not have had the same level of lynchings, or legalized segregation, or one-drop rules and marriage bans, but the self-hatred and cultural need to continually downplay our blackness with straight-up colorism is white supremacist too. "Mejoramiento" = "blanqueamiento" to a lot of Latinos still, and we can't ignore that by congratulating ourselves for not "being as bad" as the US was. Passing is not a foreign concept to Latinos. A lot of them still "hide grandma" to get ahead, even at times outright siding with American white supremacists like Alex Michael Ramos (Google him, a Puerto Rican arrested for a beating at Charlottesville). A lot of Latinos are just more explicit about using colorism to their advantage, in order to get ahead in a world that thinks whiter = better.

[@micheleshropshire9469]

@@athena608 Amen!

[@MA-yh2ko]

Well said.

[@wrendor9465]

Irene is passing in every way and with everyone except with Hugh. With him, she was more her self...in her skin. Hugh, reminded me of character Addison DeWitt in 1950's film "All About Eve". He even sounds like him and have almost the same sense if humor as him. Great movie, cinematography, cast, story line and of course the thematic Ethio Jazz. I cannot tell you how in love i am with this craft. Thank you for this masterpiece!

[@samanthasipin9291]

39:15 "maybe there's hope that she'll leave and idk realize she's gay" say more Rebecca!! but for real, i'm so deeply craving a discussion on this movie thru a queer lens. the gaze with which Irene and Claire look at each other, is a visible and physical manifestation of "wild desire" and longing. and i'm curious what Rebecca would say abt the difference in the ways that Irene looks at Clare and vice versa

[@rosannekatonwalden1620]

Rebecca Hall was the perfect person to adapt this book into the film medium. Oddly enough, this book would also make a amazing Opera!!! Her mother in her youth would have been a electric Claire and her father Sir Peter Hall, first choice for the opera's director!

[@lxuaes6915]

Never forget, Louis CK made Pootie Tang

[@superamanda]

Sorry. Neither actresses could pass and Rebecca is fraud. She’s jumped on the Woke wagon. So after decades of talking about her mother’s white multi racial ancestry she’s pretending she’s “discovered it.”

[@DjWrightLicsw]

This is not new. She might not have not known but that is not the point. We r all mix. She does not talk about that which is political as well as social. So think carefully about her conclusion having lived as a white woman.🙏🏾❤️🌹😷🥰😇

[@clarissagafoor5222]

Rubbish!

[@backto-il9ne]

"We r all mix." Who is the we here?? Don't be a clown. Sit down and listen to people's lived experiences. Stop projecting and discrediting other people's truths.