Trivia / Loving (2016)

• California Doubling: Although shot on location in Virginia, the scenes in DC were also shot in Virginia.
• Dawson Casting: 34 year old Ruth Negga as 18 year old Mildred Loving.
• Dueling Movies:
  • Twenty years earlier, an HBO movie titled Mr. & Mrs. Loving was released, but according to Mildred, "Not very much of it was true, except that I had three children."
  • There's also A United Kingdom, which was also about an interracial marriage with the genders reversed.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Joel Edgerton bleached his hair.
• Fake American: Both of the leads, actually: Joel Edgerton is Australian and Ruth Negga is Irish (though born in Ethiopia). Mildred Loving also had Native American ancestry, which Ruth of course does not. Sheriff Brooks is played by New Zealander Martin Csokas.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Michael Shannon, best known for playing intense characters, whether good or bad, playing the laid-back and friendly Life magazine photographer Grey Villet.
  • Nick Kroll is mostly well known for his raunchy and random comedy roles. It's pretty jarring to see him play a politician in a serious drama.
• Production Posse: Both Joel Edgerton and Michael Shannon had starred in Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special released earlier in 2016. Amusingly their roles are inverted there - where it's Joel's character helping Michael's with his family trouble. This is the fifth Jeff Nichols film that Michael Shannon has starred in overall.
• Star-Making Role: Ruth Negga had slowly been climbing through the ranks, but the buzz about the film months before its release and the subsequent Oscar nomination turned her into a star.

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