Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the veteran actress.

E arly in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Anima

It is almost 30 years since Jean-Baptiste and Leigh collaborated on a film—the cult 1996 comedy drama Secrets & Lies, which would see her become the first Black British actress nominated for an Oscar.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives an Oscar-caliber performance as a bitter angry woman who strikes out at everyone she encounters in this funny, painfully dramatic slice-of-life from veteran English director Mike Leigh.

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager. But she is — apologies to Frances McDormand’s career — the most fascinating.

Baptiste, her 30-years-later reunion with the legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh as the star of “Hard Truths,” in theaters now, has been a remarkable triumph.

ABC News’ Linsey Davis talks to Marianne Jean-Baptiste about her new movie “Hard Truths” and working without a defined script.