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Hedda

2025

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Brett Alan Dewing
Nov 21, 2025
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Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is one of my favorite plays, so when I saw that Nia DaCosta was making a film adaptation this year, I was excited. When I saw that she had cast Tessa Thompson in the title role, I was slightly wary. Thompson is an actress who can be anywhere from great to bad. I saw that the film’s setting was moved from nineteenth-century Sc…

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