Ruth Negga has admitted that her Oscar nod is exciting and very flattering.
The actress is tipped to be nominated for Best Actress in the upcoming Academy Awards for her role as Mildred Loving in one of the biggest films of the year, Loving.
“It’s terribly exciting, it’s very flattering to hear people talk about a performance that you’ve loved [and] invested in,” she said.
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The film follows the true story of an interracial couple who marry in 1958 Virginia – a time when interracial marriage was illegal.
“It’s very special to me. Mildred and Richard Loving are extremely special people to me,” she told Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show.
“It’s flattering for me personally, it’s flattering for everybody in our film, it’s also amazing because it feels like this couple who have sort of been forgotten and neglected, that people will hopefully know them and become familiar with them.
“The universal theme [of the film] is love and to respect one another.”
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Ryan mentioned that he thinks the theme needs to be aired in America, but Ruth said that she thinks the theme of love should be spread everywhere around the world.
“These distances that we’re building, these bridges we’re building between one another when really we should be communicating.
“The further away we get from one another, the less we understand each other. That’s when I think fear takes over.”
