Delicious Decadence With A Dollop Of Debauchery:…
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We’re actually intrigued by Nia DaCosta‘s visually enthralling Hedda starring Tessa Thompson as a high society socialite who finds herself ensnared in a lusty conundrum which unfolds over the course of one significantly charged night.
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Based on Henrik Ibsen’s traditional play, Hedda Gabler, the provocative reimagining smolders when Hedda—a bored newlywed with long-repressed needs—pulls herself and everybody around her into a spiral of manipulation, ardour, and betrayal.
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“Hedda is someone who wants people’s animals to come out,” said DaCosta in an interview with Vanity Fair. “She just feels like everyone is cowardly, everyone’s lying. She has this deepening emptiness inside of her that makes her do things she doesn’t understand—and she is living in a world that she doesn’t get.”
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Premiering at the famed Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, Hedda will certainly be the discuss of Hollywood as the latest Oscar contender with a Black lead and director (Sinners).
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“She’s so brilliant at playing characters who have a roiling ocean inside of them but have to keep a façade,” said DaCosta about Thompson. “She’s just really great at that tension.”
In an intriguing twist, DaCosta swapped Hedda’s ex-flame (who also occurs to be competing with her husband for a coveted educating gig) from a man to a lady which proves to be somewhat interestinggg in the trailer.
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“You do have this extra layer of another thing that these women are fighting against to just feel like they’re people who matter in the eyes of the men that tell them what they should and shouldn’t be doing,” said DaCosta about the change.
“This made it more potent, more powerful, and also more unfortunately tragic.”
Written and directed by DaCosta (Candyman, Little Woods, and The Marvels), the buzzy movie also stars Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss.
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Hedda opens in choose theaters on Oct. 22 and premieres on Prime Video Oct. 29.
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