Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor have never worked together before, but the two bonded like old friends in the latest installment of TheWrap’s longform series Visionaries, in which they spoke about their awards-contending films “Hard Truths” and “Nickel Boys,” why they find it hard to watch their own work and got candid about what it was really like making two films that pushed the boundaries of narrative filmmaking.
Jean-Baptiste reunited with filmmaker Mike Leigh on “Hard Truths” after starring in his 1996 Oscar-nominated film “Secrets & Lies.” In “Hard Truths,” Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a depressed woman struggling through her various interpersonal relationships.