Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for Hard Truths, a hilarious heartbreaking look at hate versus acceptance. Read ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...

The hit Hallmark show, due to kick off its highly anticipated third season on January 3rd, successfully strikes a ...

The legendary English filmmaker gushed about Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner during a recording of THR's 'Awards Chatter' ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins Morning Joe to discuss her role in Mike Leigh's new film 'Hard Truths,' where she plays ...

Instead of going home, he sat in King’s Cross station and watched people go by — a very Mike Leigh thing to do. “Improvising is a way of making films,” he continues, leaning back on his ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

"By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with," Marianne Jean-Baptiste tells Newsweek.

the newest film from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh that reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste. After its world premiere at the Toronto Film ...

Leigh does not typically work off a script when creating his stories, but rather builds his films off improvisations conducted with his actors. “‘Hard Truths’ came out of months of ...