Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September, Prime Video has shared a poster and trailer for Hedda, writer-director Nia DaCosta’s (Candyman, The Marvels) reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler.
Set over the course of one evening, Tessa Thompson stars in the titular role as a woman who finds herself pulled into a spiral of manipulation and passion as repressed desires and tensions erupt throughout the night.
The cast includes Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss. Check out the trailer below…
HEDDA (Tessa Thompson) finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
Hedda arrives on Prime Video on October 29th.
