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National Loving Day: The 'Loving' cast on the film couple's perfect and fateful last name
Director Jeff Nichols has never had an easier time titling a movie. The filmmaker’s latest project, Loving, follows the real-life couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose union led the Supreme Court to strike down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The couple’s last name — which all you law students already know — was, amazingly, Loving.
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2017 Oscar Virgins: 7 First-Time Nominees
Meryl Streep is nominated once again for her performance in Florence Foster Jenkins. The queen of the big screen broke her own record this year by earning her 20th(!) career Oscar nod – the most for any actor by far (Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson are tied for second place with 12 nominations apiece). But even Meryl had a first time – the 67-year-old’s first nomination came back in 1978 for The Deer Hunter, when she was just 29.
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Joel Edgerton on His 3 Minutes of 'Star Wars' Fame
Joel Edgerton is one of those character actors who’s been in so many movies, it’s hard to remember them all. Right now, he’s getting a well-deserved moment in the spotlight for his lead performance in Loving (in theaters now), the true story of the Virginia couple whose 1967 Supreme Court case invalidated laws against interracial marriage. But Edgerton’s first big Hollywood moment was something quite different: the decidedly not-true story of Anakin Skywalker. ...
- EntertainmentKevin Polowy
How foreign-born 'Loving' stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga united for an important American love story
The new romantic drama Loving, based on the real-life couple whose 1967 Supreme Court trial Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage, is a quintessential tale of American social justice. “I kept thinking he cast me ’cause he’s just lazy,” the Australian-born Edgerton joked to Yahoo Movies (watch above) about director and Arkansas native Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter), whom the actor had just worked with on the spring release Midnight Special. Edgerton (Warrior, Black Mass) plays Richa
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'Loving' Clip: Nick Kroll Tackles the Groundbreaking Supreme Court Case
The new drama Loving gracefully depicts the real-life story of the couple whose 1967 Supreme Court case eventually overturned laws against interracial marriage in the United States. The movie stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving, the man and woman at the center of this love story. In the new clip above though, we also get a closer look at comedian Nick Kroll taking a rare dramatic role as Bernard Cohen, the inexperienced ACLU lawyer who handled their case.
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Before You See ‘Loving,’ Watch This Documentary About the Real-Life Couple
Nancy Buirski’s 2011 documentary, The Loving Story, functions as the nonfiction mirror image of writer-director Jeff Nichols’s new feature, Loving.
