{"id":6577,"date":"2021-11-01T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1487840"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:33:22","slug":"passing-release-date-on-netflix-cast-trailer-and-more-for-rebecca-hall-period-drama","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/passing-release-date-on-netflix-cast-trailer-and-more-for-rebecca-hall-period-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing: release date on Netflix, cast, trailer and more for Rebecca Hall period drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lewis Knight\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 01 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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British actress Rebecca Hall makes her directorial debut with black-and-white period drama Passing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The monochrome film premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival 2021 and was subsequently acquired by streaming giant Netflix<\/a>.\u00a0Passing went on to screen at both the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, receiving wide critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

Hall, who is best known for her roles in the likes of The Prestige and Iron Man 3, was drawn to the novel of the same name by Nella Larsen due to her mother\u2019s mixed-race heritage. She told the Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cMy whole life this was sort of known and not known, talked about and not talked about. There wasn\u2019t really language for passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, she added that Larsen\u2019s novel gave her \u201ca context and a historical understanding for what must have happened in my family\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here is everything you need to know about Passing and how to watch it now.<\/p>\n

Passing release date on Netflix<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Passing is released on Netflix worldwide on 10th November 2021<\/strong>.\u00a0The film will be made available at 8am GMT in the UK.<\/p>\n
The film, which is shot entirely in black-and-white, had a two-week theatrical release on 27th October before its streamer debut.<\/p>
Passing cast<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Thor: Ragnarok actress Tessa Thompson stars as mixed-race woman Irene Redfield, while Loving star Ruth Negga stars opposite her as her mixed-race former school friend named Clare Kendry. While Irene identifies as African-American, Clare instead \u201cpasses\u201d as white.<\/p>\n
Portraying the pair\u2019s on-screen husbands are Moonlight actor Andre Holland as Irene\u2019s Black husband Brian and Big Little Lies star Alexander Skarsgard as Clare\u2019s rich and white husband, John Bellew.<\/p>\n
The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/a> star Bill Camp also stars as Irene\u2019s white friend, Hugh Wentworth.<\/p>\n
Passing plot<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The film Passing is based on the novel of the same name by author Nella Larsen, which was first published in 1929.<\/p>\n
Both the novel and the film explore the complicated relationship between Irene \u201cReenie\u201d Redfield and Clare Kendry in 1920s New York City.<\/p>\n
The pair were friends in school and both women are mixed race but lead different lives in different cultures.<\/p>\n
Reenie is the middle-class wife of a Black doctor named Brian, while Clare has married a wealthy white man named John Bellew and \u201cpasses\u201d as a white woman.<\/p>\n
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