Trailer To Passing Starring Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga
Netflix has released the official trailer and poster to Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut titled Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga. The film made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will also be shown at the 59th New York Film Festival.
Also featured in the film are André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Ashley Ware Jenkins, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and Gbenga Akinnagbe.
Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.
Passing is written and directed by actress Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona, Christine). The film is produced by Hall, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, and Margot Hand with Thompson and Negga also set as executive producers.
Oren Moverman, Angela Robinson, Erika Hampson, Michael Y. Chow, Kevin A. Lin, Lauren Dark, Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, and Brenda Robinson have also executive produced along with Chaz Ebert, Yvonne Huff, Christopher Liu, Arcadiy Golubovich, Dori A. Rath, Joseph J. Restaino, David Gendron and Ali Jazayeri