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‘Hard Truths’: Read The Screenplay That Returns Seven-Time Oscar Nominee Mike Leigh To Modern London
Hard Truths, from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh, reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
As Pansy increasingly nears a her snapping point, the film explores how even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, families still find ways to love one another. Jean-Baptiste, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for 1996’s Secrets & Lies, said her latest reunion with Leigh (the longtime collaboration included her starring in his play A Great Big Shame and writing the score for his 1997 pic Career Girls) involved starting with only an idea. What formed among Leigh, Jean-Baptiste and Austin was teaming to create stories pulled from real-life interactions with people in their lives, creating the world of the film along the way; Jean Baptiste says Pansy was an amalgam of at least five people, “all of whom “had the “all of whom had the milk of human kindness removed from them.” The approach was so immersive that filming could begin without a final script.
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