Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga on Loving, interracial marriage and gay rights

At the Cannes film festival the stars of Jeff Nichols’s Loving, a biopic of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were arrested in Virginia in 1958 for marrying, tell Nigel M Smith how their case echoes through to the legilisation of gay marriage in modern America. Meanwhile, Nichols explains why he wasn’t keen on making the couple’s story a traditional court room drama

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