the latter of which also features Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The movie is about a woman, Pansy, experiencing depression due to years of bottled-up feelings about grief and pent-up frustration with ...

That’s not me.” Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. Marianne Jean-Baptiste was 'yearning' to reteam with Mike Leigh for Hard ...

Much like Cartlidge, who made Naked with Leigh and then began working primarily in the US, Jean-Baptiste was attracted to independent films rather than name-above-the-title movie stardom.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh ... Much like real life, Leigh’s unscripted, mostly improvised movies do not offer easy answers. “Hard Truths” declines to diagnose ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...

especially because the movie also finds Leigh reuniting with one of his foremost collaborators in Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The two worked together in a play Leigh put up in 1993, and again in ...

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Michele Austin in a scene from "Hard Truths." (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street via AP) Pansy is angry and she doesn’t know why ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, right, says it was "terrifying ... with Lauren Bacall and Muhammad Ali at the 1997 Oscars, where the movie was up for best picture. “It was surreal,” Jean-Baptiste ...