‘Hedda’ Review: Tessa Thompson And Nina Hoss Start A Fire In Nia DaCosta’s Wildean Reimagining Of Ibsen’s Classic Play – Toronto Film Festival

‘Hedda’ Review: Tessa Thompson And Nina Hoss Start A Fire In Nia DaCosta’s Wildean Reimagining Of Ibsen’s Classic Play – Toronto Film Festival

‘Hedda’ review: Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss start a fire in Nia DaCosta’s Wildean reimagining of Ibsen’s classic play – Toronto Film Festival

In Hedda, Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson Reinvent Hedda Gabler as a Woman Dying to Live

“It's hard to have agency as a human, and then you add any of the particulars of a given time, and it gets even harder. And there's a way in which, when we cut parts of ourselves off, it's like death by increments… I think this Hedda is a woman who's dying to live,” said Hedda star Tessa Thompson during a Q&A at the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.  Directed by Nia DaCosta, Hedda is an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play Hedda Gable…