Having played Thor's pal Valkyrie in four Marvel movies, musician Bianca Taylor across Ryan Coogler's Creed trilogy, and devious Delos director Charlotte Hale in (almost) every season of sci-fi series Westworld, Tessa Thompson is well-versed in revisiting characters. Whenever she signs up to play a new one, though, she's hellbent on doing something completely different to what she's done before.
That's a trickier task, still, when you're playing someone who's been interpreted by many others before you – on both stage and screen. In her latest collaboration with writer-director Nia DaCosta, who she previously worked with on low-budget crime drama Little Woods and blockbuster sequel The Marvels, Thompson is the most recent actor to tackle Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
