The trailer for Netflix's new drama Passing has been released with Irish actress Ruth Negga at the fore.
Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York.
After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well.
As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and Passing becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.
Having received an Oscar nomination for her work in Loving, there's high hopes that the Love/Hate and Preacher star will receive her second nod at the Academy Awards.
Passing also marks the directorial debut of Rebecca Hall and it boasts an extremely impressive cast with the likes of André Holland, Alexander Skarsgard, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy also starring.
Passing will be available to watch on Netflix from 10 November and we wouldn't rule out a limited theatrical run too.
