Rebecca Hall on the Gotham-Nominated ‘Passing’
Addie Morfoot ContributorIn 2008 Rebecca Hall received a Gotham for best ensemble performance for her “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Thirteen years later she’s back with her directorial debut “Passing,” which garnered five Gotham nominations in the best feature, breakthrough director, screenplay, lead performance and supporting performance categories.Based on the eponymous novel by Nella Larsen, “Passing,” written by Hall, takes place in the 1920s and follows the lives of two Black women, one of whom passes as a white woman, due to her light skin tone, and marries a white husband who is clueless about her race.Did you always know that you wanted to adapt and direct Larsen’s “Passing”?I really wrote the screenplay in an effort to just spend