LOVING interview w/ Ruth Negga HD

Jade Howard sits down with Oscar Contender Ruth Negga to talk about her powerful role as Mildred Loving that she brought to the screen in the new film LOVING. From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, “Loving” celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since. RUTH NEGGA (Mildred) was born in Ethiopia and raised in Ireland. Her body of work spans award-winning theatre productions, big-screen dramas, independent films, and innovative television series. Ms. Negga (pronounced “ney-gah”) won the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of legendary singer Shirley Bassey in the telefilm Shirley, directed by Colin Teague. She starred on the acclaimed series Misfits and Love/Hate; and in the miniseries Coup (a.k.a. Secret State), directed by Ed Fraiman, with Gabriel Byrne, and Five Daughters, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. She joined the Marvel Universe as Raina on the hit show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., for which she received an IFTA Award nomination. Currently, Ms. Negga stars in the lead female role of Tulip O’Hare on AMC’s West Texas-set series Preacher, the long-awaited adaptation of the graphic novel, opposite Dominic Cooper in the title role. Her extensive theatre credits include Lolita, which was her stage debut, with Corn Exchange Theatre Company at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre; Duck, with Out of Joint at London’s Royal Court Theatre, for which she received an Olivier Award (the U.K.’s Tony Awards equivalent) nomination; Playboy of the Western World, at The Old Vic; Hamlet, at the National Theatre; Phaedre, also at the National Theatre, for which was honored with the Ian Charleson Award, given annually to young classical stage actors in Britain; Oedipus Loves You, at the Peter Pan Theatre; Lay Me Down Softly, The Crucible, The Bacchae, and Burial at Thebes, all at the Abbey Theatre; and, at the Project Theatre, Titus Andronicus, for which she received the Irish Times Award for Best Actress. She was named a Shooting Star at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. Moviegoers have seen Ms. Negga in, among other films, Marc Forster’s World War Z; David Weaver’s The Samaritan, alongside Samuel L. Jackson; Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto, for which she received an IFTA Award nomination; Richie Adams’ Una Vida (a.k.a. Of Mind and Music); Stephen Bradley’s Noble; John Ridley’s Jimi: All Is by My Side, opposite André Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix; Duncan Jones’ Warcraft; and, in the title role, Scott Graham’s Iona. BlackTree is at all the hottest events on the planet (award shows, movie premieres and press ju