Actress Ruth Negga loves working with her partner, Dominic Coope, because the entertainment business can be “lonely” without someone to support her.
“It can be so lonely filming, so it’s like your buddy and your back up. He’s got my back and I’ve got his. Very much so,” Negga told Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
Earlier this year, Negga was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Loving, in which she played Mildred Loving, one half of a mixed-race couple who challenged the US legal system for the right to marry and live together in Virginia in the 1960s.
She misses the character so much that she often rewatches a documentary about the late activist and her husband, Richard.
Negga says that even if she never works again, she’ll always be thankful for that movie.
She said: “Honestly, if I never do anything again, I got to be in the orbit of really special people.”
Negga also worries she’ll never find another role that matches her experience on Loving.
Asked if she worries nothing else could compare, she said: “Oh! of course. And sometimes I don’t think I’ve got anything else in me. But I think that’s a natural place to be.”
