Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re joined by actor and producer Tessa Thompson! To begin, we talk about Thompson’s entry point into her new film Passing (7:56), a pivotal scene starring Bill Camp (11:08), the groundbreaking work of writers Nella Larsen (13:05) and Zora Neale Hurston (15:33), and how moviemaking keeps Tessa connected to something greater (19:37).
On the back half, she shares her earliest inclinations toward acting (22:20) and activism (26:43), growing up in Los Angeles to creative parents (24:17), reckoning with her own ambition (30:19), how she learned to take up space in Hollywood (31:10), why she recently launched her own production company, Viva Maude (33:31), and what her success would’ve meant to her late grandmother (38:58).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:10.0 | If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking |
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| 0:49.0 | missing pages is a must listen. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. This is talk easy. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm San Francisco, so welcome on the show. Today I'm joined by actor and producer Tessa Thompson. |
| 1:36.8 | For the past decade you've probably noticed Thompson on screen doing, well a little bit of everything. |
| 1:43.0 | She's played a film student turned radio host in dear white people, |
| 1:47.0 | activist Diane Nash and Selma, |
| 1:50.0 | an aspiring musician in the Creed franchise, |
| 1:52.0 | Valkyrie in Thorangnarock and a An aspiring musician in the Creed franchise, |
| 1:52.8 | Valkyrie in Thorangnaroc and Adventures Endgame. |
| 1:56.6 | She's also starred in more personal projects |
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