The actress stars in Rebecca Halls directorial debut, an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s novel.
“I’m actually using you to figure out who she is!”
“She knew what she wanted for every single shot.
“She has the ability to transmit truth in a way that it’s so elegant and really rare.
For her, I think everything is about truth, everything.”
“And she doesn’t judge them, either.”
That matter-of-fact treatment spoke to the actress as she searched for the character’s truth herself.
It was a physical act, it wasn’t an emotional act.
It wasn’t a racial act.
It was a physical act to survive,” Negga says.
What Larsen does is she goes, ‘Oh, this girl had a f—ing personality.'"
“Listen, it’s not the choices I would have made,” the actress says.
It’s not math," she says.
“I don’t always understand completely the characters I play.
Who will we have?
Pick one!'”
“‘Look how complex and human and wicked and beautiful and lovely they are.
Just like you.'”
Passingpremieres as part of the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 30.
