tell me, do they still call you reenie?ng to be in the company of blackness again. but in that way, it's a complicated celebration of the beauty of blackness. >> i don't know if she's oblivious to the risks. i don't think so. there's a certain "f-u" as well. you say i can't go there, i can't do this? look what i've done. i kind of admire that, actually, because it's using what's available to you to subvert the system that is quite obviously broken. >> you dislikening rows? >> no, no, not at all. i hate them. >> our film is not just about the ways in which one might pass across the race line. irene says herself, we're all of us passing for something or other, aren't we? we're privileged to live in a time where ideas around race, around gender, that there's a cultural conversation around those things being a construct, right? >> reporter: for actress-turned-director rebecca hall, bringing "passing" to the screen involved more than a decade of struggle and a personal connection to the material. >> i come from a family where th