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I honestly would have thrived if saoirse ronan had gone to the met gala and used the theme + Ireland’s horrific catholic past + the upcoming referendum in a high art protest look for the repeal movement - like she supports the campaign and was nominated for an oscar, what a perfect moment to take advantage of such a stupidly opulent media-oriented event to make some waves. there was such glorious opportunity to mix it up with heavenly bodies/bodily autonomy and also to call out the church for its past atrocities in Ireland, all while looking celestial and divine. or ruth negga, who was there - though I can’t find anywhere whether she’s openly come out in support of the campaign or not, which is also a bummer tbh. just literally any irish celebrity, I mean there aren’t many at that level but it would have been iconic and I’m bitter.

Ruth Negga photographed by Norman Jean Roy

I suppose I’m a shy attention seeker. I suppose I’m a wallflower in real life, but acting creates a very safe space that draws attention to you but there are always “actions“ and “cuts“. It’s a safety net of sorts, where you can be an attention seeker but in a very safe way.

Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood

Ruth Negga dazzles onstage. Not just because, as Lady Macbeth, she briefly wears a gold metallic gown in Sam Gold’s otherwise fairly casual staging of “Macbeth” at the Longacre Theater. But, rather, it’s because she infuses her character, and her marriage to Macbeth (Daniel Craig), with such intensity, urgency and vitality that I found myself missing her when she came to her inevitable end.

Negga was nominated for a Tony Award for best performance by a leading actress in a play, which recognizes both her powerful stage presence and the gender parity that Gold’s revival sought to achieve. “Like a feral cat, she can seem quicksilver and weightless or, when enraged, menacing and bristly and twice her size,” Jesse Green wrote of Negga’s performance in a review in The Times.

Even if Lady Macbeth appears in substantially fewer scenes than her husband, her cunning mind — and Negga’s command of Shakespeare’s verse — leave an indelible imprint. “Her language is very fertile, it’s very fecund and it’s very sensual,” Negga said last week in a video interview. “I think a lot of people associate that with darkness as well. But that’s another layer that I think this character has been burdened and muddied with.”

Negga, who plays the mysterious, seductive, blonde-haired Clare in the movie “Passing,” and the real-life civil rights activist Mildred Loving in “Loving,” is drawn to characters who try to circumvent the social circumstances into which they were born. Negga sees Clare, Loving and now Lady Macbeth as paying a price for such transgressions because they are either running out of time or, in the case of Loving, ahead of hers.

Born in Ethiopia to an Ethiopian father and an Irish mother, and raised in Ireland and England, Negga, 40, spoke from her place in New York about the significance of seeing “Macbeth” as a love story, and why she finds the role of Lady to be liberating. These are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Ruth Negga inspires me so much with her eloquence and skill. I hope she had an amazing birthday today

Ruth Negga featured in Vanity Fair’s “Hollywood Issue 2017″

Ruth Negga as Hamlet at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY (February 2020). Photo taken by Sara Krulwich for The NY Times.

Joel Edgerton & Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving. From the film "Loving"

Oh, I don’t expect you to understand. You’re happy. You have a true, good life, and you’re free. Free and safe. Safe… I don’t even know what that is anymore.

Ruth Negga as Clare Bellew Passing (2021, Rebecca Hall)

Preacher [S2:E7] —Pig

Same!

Breaking my silence: I genuinely thought Rusty and Barbara were going to have hot, angry sex right here because there was a moment during this fight that she looked at Rusty's lips, and I thought, Are they about to fuck? I mean, that would have been so fucking hot.

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