Sitting at an outdoor table near the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel in oversized sunglasses, sipping on English Breakfast Tea and nibbling on a Caesar salad with chicken, Marianne Jean-Baptiste couldn’t be any sweeter or friendlier. And frankly, that comes as a relief after seeing “Hard Truths,” the Mike Leigh film in which her character, Pansy, is the embodiment of anger and depression.
Pansy wakes up every morning with a gasp and a muffled scream, can’t have a civil conversation with her son or her husband and turns a trip to the grocery store into a vicious verbal assault on just about everyone who gets in her way.