Fresh Air
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Tessa Thompson wrestles with cynicism but chooses optimism
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February 6, 2026
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1:01:48Now PlayingTessa Thompson has played a Valkyrie, a revolutionary, a boxer's daughter, and a woman slowly unraveling inside a perfect marriage. But before all of that, before Veronica Mars, before Westworld, before the MCU, she booked her first TV role as a lesbian bootlegger from the 1930s on Cold Case.
Thompson sits down with Fresh Air's Tonya Mosley to talk about the complicated, combustible marriage at the center of Netflix's His & Hers, what it took to inhabit Hedda Gabler's famous quiet fury, and why she's drawn to characters who make dangerous choices rather than safe ones.
She also gets into the craft of building a performance from the inside out, how she decides what's worth the risk, and what that Cold Case audition taught her about swinging big from day one.
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