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Tessa Thompson has kept her Hedda character at the center of her mood board in the lead-up to the film’s release. That hasn’t required leaning all the way into its source material’s Late Victorian aesthetic, however. She opens the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play in a shade of red so "beautiful," she decided to scatter it throughout her entire press tour wardrobe. "[I]t made me adore wearing the color," she tells me in an email. "I recently wore a bright red leather skirt that remains a favorite."