*Tiffany Haddish arrived at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with a pair of crime-focused thrillers that place her far from the comedic roles audiences often associate with her career.
The projects, “The Deputy” and “The Girl in the River,” both explore darker investigations set in Mississippi and highlight a different side of Haddish’s screen presence, Variety reports.
One of the films, “The Deputy,” casts Haddish as Amanda Jackson, a principled officer confronting corruption in a Mississippi town. Directed by Matt Sukkar and adapted from a Victor Gischler novel. Haddish also took on executive producer duties and stars alongside a cast featuring William H. Macy, Stephen Dorff, Julia Fox, and Duke Nicholson.
Her second film, “The Girl in the River,” was filmed in Canton, Jackson, and Vicksburg. Directed by Brando Benetton, the thriller stars Haddish alongside Ralph Macchio, Devon Sawa, and Maggie Grace in a story centered on the murder of a young girl and the disappearance of her twin sister.
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Despite the similar themes running through both movies, Haddish joked that the pattern was accidental. “I’m not trying to go into law enforcement,” she said, adding, “I know that I’m really good at that drama stuff.”
Haddish connected those performances to her own upbringing within the foster care system. “I belonged to the state of California,” she said while reflecting on experiences with judges and case workers during childhood. “I know how to play those people. They’ve been in my world.”
She also spoke candidly about the emotional weight behind dramatic storytelling and why audiences may be gravitating toward those stories now. “Audiences are desiring real storytelling,” Haddish said, before adding, “We’re living in a psycho thriller. And we’d much rather be watching the psycho thriller.”
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