EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson, who stars within the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios drama Hedda, has been tapped to obtain the Highlight Award at this yr’s Gotham Movie Awards.
The honour will probably be bestowed on the Gotham Movie & Media Institute’s thirty fifth annual awards ceremony set for December 1 in New York Metropolis.
Hedda, directed and written by Nia DaCosta as an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s famed play, world premiered final month on the Toronto Movie Pageant. It’s gearing up for a theatrical launch starting Wednesday earlier than it lands on Prime Video on October 29.
Thompson portrays Hedda within the story DaCosta has set in Nineteen Fifties England, with the titular newlywed who hiding a discontent that can reveal itself at a lavish get together she and her new husband George (Tom Bateman) can’t afford to throw. Over the course of the night time, the excessive and low of society endure the results of this harmful and unknowable lady craving for a previous love within the guise of one of many friends, a superb writer (Nina Hoss) who’s up for a similar educational place as George. Hedda orchestrates a ruthless recreation of manipulation, the place lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.
Imogen Poots and Nicholas Pinnock additionally star within the movie, on which Thompson additionally serves as a producer.
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“Tessa’s efficiency is each fearless and revelatory – an interpretation that deepens considered one of dramatic literature’s most complicated characters and brings her into new focus for the viewers that we characterize right here at The Gothams,” mentioned Gotham Movie & Media Institute government director Jeffrey Sharp. “We’re thrilled to honor Tessa with the Highlight Tribute and rejoice her extraordinary work in bringing Hedda to life with such depth and nuance. All through her exceptional profession, she has remained dedicated to daring, transformative storytelling.”
Final yr, the Gothams’ Highlight Tribute was introduced to Zendaya for her efficiency in Challengers. This yr’s honorees already embody Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which can obtain the Vanguard Tribute, and the forged of Sinners which can obtain the Ensemble Tribute. Extra will probably be introduced quickly.
This yr’s Gotham Awards nominees will probably be revealed October 28.
