Fearlessness “isn’t just something an individual generates in themselves.

It has to be an environmental thing, and I very much believe in that.”

“And I think we very much created that spirit of safeness between us and that spirit of connectedness.

PASSING Awardist

Ruth Negga.Netflix

I think that is crucial when you’re doing things that are very emotionally trying, that is essential.

And luckily Tessa is like that.

We giggled an awful lot,” she says.

But Negga did a lot of her own research, too.

“Communities who lost their individuals to the practice of passing really lost them.

It was a severance.

The stories she did find, however, were “striking.”

And it’s interesting, and I think about it a lot now.

And that fascinated me,” Negga says.

Passingis now streaming on Netflix.

Listen to the full interview on EW’sThe Awardistpodcast below or available wherever you listen to podcasts.