Chicago – The career of actress Naomie Harris has exploded, mostly due to a choice role of Moneypenny in the James Bond film series, beginning with 2012’s “Skyfall” and bookended in the recent “Spectre” (2015). But she also displays deep acting chops in the new film “Moonlight,” portraying a mother hopelessly lost in drug abuse.
The film features Harris as Paula, the mother of the main character Little/Chiron/Black – he has a different name in each of the three “chapters” of the film, and portrayed by different actors in each chapter as a child, teenager and adult. He is a unique soul from a desperately poor African American neighborhood in Miami, and knows that he is gay, but has that part of his life challenge at many levels, including his all-too-absent mother. The film also is the directorial debut of Barry Jenkins.
Naomie Harris as Paula in ‘Moonlight’
Photo credit: A...
The film features Harris as Paula, the mother of the main character Little/Chiron/Black – he has a different name in each of the three “chapters” of the film, and portrayed by different actors in each chapter as a child, teenager and adult. He is a unique soul from a desperately poor African American neighborhood in Miami, and knows that he is gay, but has that part of his life challenge at many levels, including his all-too-absent mother. The film also is the directorial debut of Barry Jenkins.
Naomie Harris as Paula in ‘Moonlight’
Photo credit: A...
- 11/14/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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