{"id":211745,"date":"2025-10-14T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211745\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:15:09","slug":"thor-star-tessa-thompson-says-chris-hemsworth-is-baby-with-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211745\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Thor’ Star Tessa Thompson Says Chris Hemsworth Is ‘Baby With Muscles’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThor<\/a>\u201d star Tessa Thompson<\/a> charmed a packed audience at a BFI London Film Festival<\/a> screen talk on Monday, reflecting on her varied career from Marvel blockbusters to intimate indie dramas, including her latest project \u201cHedda,\u201d which premiered at the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor was particularly effusive about her \u201cThor\u201d experience, describing director Taika Waititi as \u201ca huge infant, just, he\u2019s like an infant with a bank account.\u201d Thompson praised Waititi\u2019s childlike approach to filmmaking, noting \u201cit\u2019s terrifying\u201d and \u201che should be stopped,\u201d in the most affectionate way possible.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe had equally glowing words for co-star Chris Hemsworth<\/a>, calling him \u201ca baby with muscles, a very big infant\u201d who has \u201cno inhibition\u201d and \u201cwill just do anything you know, to get the laugh and to discover, so it\u2019s a pleasure to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s so goofy making those movies sometimes,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cThe mechanism of making those films requires a place of pure imagination, you know, where you just have to play like a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson explained why she sought out the Marvel role: \u201cI really wanted to make a movie like that, because I\u2019m not sure I can do that, and I really want to figure out if I can. And it was just so fun. It really, really freed me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe conversation also included Thompson\u2019s latest project, \u201cHedda,\u201d marking another collaboration with director Nia DaCosta. Thompson plays the title role in DaCosta\u2019s contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen\u2019s \u201cHedda Gabler,\u201d produced by Thompson\u2019s company Viva Maude.<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson spoke candidly about taking on the challenging role: \u201cI really like to do things that terrify me, I really like that.\u201d She noted that few women of color have played Hedda historically, though she emphasized that wasn\u2019t the reason for making the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI became conscious that I\u2019m not sure I would have got the opportunity, were it not for a filmmaker that was interested in putting people like me in the center of a frame,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor praised DaCosta\u2019s vision for making Ibsen \u201caccessible,\u201d aiming for something that \u201cactually felt sort of buoyant and had its own sort of fun and delight and felt delicious.\u201d Thompson added: \u201cThe idea of getting to present something that might not be for everybody, but there might be a whole new generation or group of people that suddenly are like, Ibsen, who\u2019s this? Ibsen felt really sexy and fun to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson also discussed her early collaboration with Ryan Coogler on \u201cCreed,\u201d describing how the director \u201creally approached it still from a very homegrown independent filmmaker spirit\u201d despite it being a big studio film. She and Michael B. Jordan improvised extensively, with Coogler recording voice notes that became embedded in the script.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked about watching herself on screen, Thompson admitted: \u201cIt\u2019s not my favorite thing, but I am improving.\u201d She revealed she used to squint whenever she appeared on screen at premieres, though producing has forced her to become more objective.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor emphasized the importance of the Meisner technique in her work, particularly the focus on listening and responding to scene partners. \u201cWords are overrated, like dialogue and speaking is actually overrated when I think about character,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cSo much is communicated in silence and so much that you don\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHedda\u201d continues its festival run following its London premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThor\u201d star Tessa Thompson charmed a packed audience at a BFI London Film Festival screen talk on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,130166,2021,134,344,130167,130168],"class_list":{"0":"post-211745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bfi-london-film-festival","11":"tag-chris-hemsworth","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-tessa-thompson","15":"tag-thor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}