Tessa Thompson found a new emotion: “happily terrified.” That’s how she felt taking on one of theatre’s great dramatic roles in her new movie Hedda.

The Creed actress plays the lead in Nia DaCosta’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, Hedda Gabler. She admitted to feeling both thrilled and nervous about tackling such a significant, dramatic role.

“I felt happily terrified,” Thompson admitted to Deadline. “I didn’t go to drama school, but I remember an actress saying to me, ‘You always have to have your Hedda ready.’ And I was like, wow, that’s very cool.”

The Thor: Ragnarok star compared Hedda to a part along the lines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

“She’s a part of the theatre canon as one of the roles that you must play if you’re a woman in theatre,” she told the outlet. “If you loo

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