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Cannes: Jeff Nichols Says His Wife Would Have Divorced Him If He Didn't Make 'Loving'
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Cannes: Jeff Nichols Says His Wife Would Have Divorced Him If He Didn't Make 'Loving'
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2016-05-17 08:29:13
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US filmmaker Jeff Nichols said Monday he hoped his rapturously received Cannes contender "Loving", about an interracial couple's landmark marriage-rights case, would help change the current vicious tone of America's culture wars.
"My wife said, 'I love you, but if you don't make this movie, I am going to divorce you," he told the media ahead of the world premiere of the awards favorite in Cannes on Monday.
The film, based on a true story, stars Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving, whose interracial marriage to Mildred (Ruth Negga) caused them to be sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958. Their case was taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union and eventually went all the way to the Supreme Court, resulting in the end of America's miscegenation laws.
"It is a story both triumphant and very shameful," said Edgerton. "It celebrates some struggles that shouldn't have had to exist."
Negga said she found it "quite shocking" that Alabama took until 2000 to become the last US state to wipe a law against interracial marriage from the books.
She noted it was only last year that Ireland voted in a referendum to allow gay marriage.
"Having a very Catholic history, I think that we showed the world that it's possible to evolve in having discussions about equality," she said.
Nichols said he had hoped to complete "Loving" before the US Supreme Court heard a pivotal gay marriage case last year, in the hope that it could "influence it" by spurring the public debate on the issue.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3592828/Interracial-marriage-drama-prompts-Oscar-buzz-Cannes.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-jeff-nichols-joel-edgerton-894322
