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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, my guest is actor and producer Tessa Thompson. Many of the characters she's played share something in common.

They're public facing, but privately conflicted,

grappling with visibility, identity, and control over their own lives.

She starred as the Warrior Valkyrie in the Marvel Universe,

the musician Bianca and the Creed franchise,

civil rights strategist Diane Nash and Selma,

a woman navigating the fraught boundaries of racial identity in the film passing,

and a biracial college student wrestling with racial politics and dear white people.

And this Sunday, she's up for a Golden Globe,

nominated for Best Actress and a Motion Picture,

for her portrayal of Heda, N Nia Dacosta's reimagining,

of Henrik Ipsen's classic play. Tessa is also starring in a new murder mystery, the Netflix

limited series, His and Hers. She plays a once prominent news anchor who returns to the small

Georgia town where she grew up after a murder pulls her back

into the spotlight. And the detective leading the case is her estranged husband. It doesn't

take long for them to realize that they're both hiding something.

There are at least two sides to every story.

Yours and mine.

Ours and theirs.

His and hers.

Which means someone is always lying.

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