"Honestly, Tessa had a great vibe, says DaCosta. She was super open, super generous and very intelligent. A smile creeps on to her face. Like that was a fucking relief. Thompson gives a look of mock offence. I really just like working with smart actors, adds DaCosta, filling the silence. Why did you assume that we're dumdums? asks Thompson, turning to look directly at her director, as they sit in a Soho hotel in London."
"The first outing was 2018's Little Woods, which starred Thompson as a bar-brawling drug mule who contemplates just one more job crossing the border from North Dakota into Canada to acquire opioids. Shot on a shoestring budget, it was a stylish and bracing calling card that set the director, now 35, on a meteoric rise."
Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson met at Sundance film labs when DaCosta workshopped Little Woods. Their working relationship has a playful, teasing dynamic and now spans three films. Little Woods (2018) starred Thompson as a bar-brawling drug mule contemplating one last job to obtain opioids, and its shoestring production established DaCosta's reputation. DaCosta subsequently directed a celebrated Candyman reboot and the big-budget sequel The Marvels with Thompson, and she is attached to 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The pair chose to adapt an Ibsen play next, a decision that provoked curiosity.
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