{"id":2123864,"date":"2025-10-30T01:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123864"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:24:17","slug":"hedda-review-tessa-thompson-sears-in-primes-adaptation-of-ibsen-play-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hedda-review-tessa-thompson-sears-in-primes-adaptation-of-ibsen-play-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hedda\u2019 review: Tessa Thompson sears in Prime\u2019s adaptation of Ibsen play | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Nia DaCosta\u2019s elegantly searing drama \u201cHedda,\u201d Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen\u2019s play \u201cHedda Gabler,\u201d this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has entered into a marriage with a man she doesn\u2019t love, in order to give her the social status she wants. In the opening scenes, she strides through her magnificent English country home, red dress flowing behind her, like a lion surveying its pride. She speaks with a pinpoint precision (note the small symphony she makes of the name \u201cTabitha,\u201d like she\u2019s biting it) and a British accent that sounds like pouring cream; she looks theatrical and bored when an old flame kisses her; she toys with a gun and plays with her silky elbow-length gloves. And those gloves, as the metaphor goes, truly do come off. Does the gun go off? Wait and see.<\/p>\n

DaCosta (\u201cCandyman,\u201d \u201cThe Marvels<\/a>\u201d) keeps the spirit of Ibsen\u2019s play while making some significant changes: moving the setting to 1950s England, changing the gender of Hedda\u2019s former lover Eilert Lovborg (here called Eileen and played by Nina Hoss) and introducing the element of race. (It goes mostly unspoken in the screenplay that Hedda is Black, while her husband and most of their circle are white, but it\u2019s unmistakably part of the drama.) The action takes place almost entirely over 24 hours, in which Hedda and her nervous-looking husband George (Tom Bateman) throw a lavish party that grows increasingly bacchanalian as the hour grows later, and in which Hedda must confront her complex feelings toward Eileen and Eileen\u2019s lover Thea (Imogen Poots), who Hedda once bullied in school. The party rages on; a beautiful chandelier falls to its death; a beautiful woman plays dominoes with people\u2019s hearts, not seeming to know her own endgame.<\/p>\n

\u201cHedda\u201d is gorgeous eye candy; that house, with its peacock wallpaper and perfect amber light, is a dream, and Thompson in Hedda\u2019s perfectly fitted green party dress (she wears it through most of the film, like armor) looks like its loveliest work of art. But there\u2019s more going on here than pretty pictures: This fascinating portrait of a lady has ice and steel at its core. \u201cDon\u2019t you miss me?\u201d Hedda croons at one point to Eileen. Her reply is swift and glacial. \u201cLike an appendix.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Movie review In Nia DaCosta\u2019s elegantly searing drama \u201cHedda,\u201d Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen\u2019s play \u201cHedda Gabler,\u201d this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has entered into a marriage with a man she doesn\u2019t love, in order to give her the social status she wants. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2123864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Hedda-review-Tessa-Thompson-sears-in-Primes-adaptation-of-Ibsen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123866,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123864\/revisions\/2123866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}