‘Hedda’ Writer-Director Nia DaCosta’s Unique Spin On Ibsen’s Play: “I Thought, ‘What If I Just Notched It Up To 11?”

For Nia DaCosta, working with Tessa Thompson as her muse has redefined Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler and made it work in purely cinematic terms. Her version is simply called Hedda, but there’s nothing simple about it. The filmmaker sets the action in 1950s England, and Thompson’s title character is no regular English housewife; she’s […]