Some directors have actors they like to work with in all their films, Mud’s Jeff Nichols has Michael Shannon and he’s keeping the tradition alive with is latest, Loving, which is also adding Nick Kroll{
Nichols’ new film is inspired by 2011 HBO documentary The Loving Story, in which Nancy Buirski chronicles the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, who married in 1958 in defiance of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924. They were arrested and exiled from the state, but that kicked off a landmark civil rights debate that led to a Supreme Court case on the matter that invalidated laws banning interracial marriage.
Joel Edgerton is playing Richard, while Ruth Negga is aboard as Mildred. Nichols wrote the script and has already started filming in Richmond, Virginia, with Bill Camp, Marton Csokas and Jon Bass also joining the cast.
Loving will mark the fifth collaboration between Nichols and Shannon, and one of the actor’s upcoming releases is the director’s most recent film, Midnight Special. He’ll also show up in Wolves, Freeheld and 99 Homes, which is out in the UK on Friday. Kroll, a regular on US comedy series The League, is part of the cast for Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups and has lent his voice to Seth Rogen’s ‘toon Sausage Party, which will arrive here on August 12 next year.