Night Always Comes puts Vanessa Kirby through the wringer – again. It’s her second gruelingly intense dramatic vehicle for Netflix after 2020’s Pieces of a Woman, which landed her a well-deserved Oscar nomination and placed her among the upper echelon of actors who can bring power and presence to both prestige cinema (see also: her memorable turn as Josephine in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon) and pop blockbuster franchises (she’s wonderfully strange as a supporting player in the Mission: Impossible films,

The new Vanessa Kirby Netflix movie, Night Always Comes —which began streaming on Netflix today—is a bleak portrayal of the economic crisis in America right now. For those living paycheck to paycheck, the film plays out like a living nightmare of just how close so many Americans are to becoming homeless.

Academy Award nominee Vanessa Kirby discusses her "Night Always Comes" film on Netflix, the experiences that prepared her for this role and her career mentality today.