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    Tessa Thompson

    Nov 05, 2021 2 minutes
    —H. Alan Scott
    “We’re all passing for one thing or another.”

    LIVING WITH A SECRET IS HARD, BUT ADD IN SYSTEMIC RACISM AND cultural oppression, and the weight of that secret increases. Netflix’s (November 10) shows how two friends in 1920s New York City, Irene are told is who gets to tell them. Hall’s script comes from a very personal place. “She was contending with her own history and legacy of passing in her family. She had skin in the game, so to speak.” Even the film being shot in black and white helps send its message home. “We’re shooting in a style you’ve seen in Hollywood, but not with protagonists like myself and Ruth.”

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