Director Mike Leigh, along with actors Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin & David Webber from "Hard Truths" sit down at the Variety Studio at TIFF.
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00:00The whole cast and you, Mr. Lee, are obviously awards-worthy.
00:04You are sitting with the awards editor for Variety.
00:06But I have to ask you, because I think we're going to be hearing your name a lot this season,
00:12worthy of a Best Actress nomination.
00:14If you were nominated, you would only be the fourth black actress to return for another nomination.
00:20Damn!
00:21The fourth ever. And I wanted to know how that would make you feel.
00:25By the way, it's Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Angela Bassett are the other three.
00:29Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's interesting.
00:31Again, though, what is beautiful about working in this way is it's not result-based.
00:38It's all about the process.
00:40So I find it very difficult to even think about that stuff because I've already won doing that.
00:47Having the courage to be able to sort of like hand it over to somebody who you know is going to look after you,
00:55being brave, you know, and just working really, really hard.
01:01So that's my answer to that.
01:04I mean, this is probably out of order to say this, but Marianne was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
01:14in the Oscars for Secrets and Lies.
01:16She should have won.
01:18She should have won.
01:21And the person who did win that particular honour came off having done her interviews backstage,
01:31came back into the auditorium, walked straight over to Marianne and said,
01:35you should have won this. That has to be the record.
01:38Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.