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Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will read the nominees ... Who gets the fifth slot could go to Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here"), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) or Pamela Anderson ("The Last ...

Hard Truths film review — Marianne Jean-Baptiste excels in precise portrait of anguish on x (opens in a new window) Hard Truths film review — Marianne Jean-Baptiste excels in precise portrait ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film Secrets & Lies, which led to Oscar and BAFTA nominations.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed, a place she will spend increasingly more time in across the film, when she suddenly awakes in fright. Is it a nightmare? Or simply the anxiety ...

What’s it going to keep in its pocket, a knife?” Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) delivers this pithy observation during a dinner table rant in which she also rails against “grinning ...

She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste. When a furniture store employee dares to ask her if she needs help ...