This episode is a callback return to summer 2020 when Rebecca Hall joined the podcast to talk “Tales From The Loop.” Now that her directorial debut “Passing” is about to make its debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, I wanted to revive and excerpt our 20+ minute conversation about “Passing”—as it’s the part that’s stayed with me the most—and really let her feelings on the matter take center stage. Based on Nella Larsen’s acclaimed 1929 Harlem Renaissance novel, “Passing” is about two African American women who can “pass” as white and they have chosen to live on opposite sides of the color line. Now, their renewed acquaintance threatens them both. Hall’s parents came from bi-racial ancestry and had similar stories that she tries to unpack in this movie about identity and representation.
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