Tessa Thompson

And yet, of course, in all of us, particularly when you want something, when you cannot have it,

I think there's something inside of us that gets quelled from when we're children.

We're told it's bad to feel that.

We're told it's bad.

We're told it's ugly.

And particularly as women, we're told to feel that about each other is unsavory.

And yet, I think understanding and being able to connect to moments of jealousy or envy actually helps us understand the lives that we want to live.

It's that thing of like when we're scrolling on Instagram and we feel petty about someone's, I don't know, job that they post or recent weight loss or engagement.

I think what they help us understand is maybe I'm not in the job that I want to be in.

Maybe I want to be someone who's taking better care of myself.

Maybe I want to be in a relationship that feels like it's moving towards some new level of commitment.

These are little...

I think, whispers to ourself.

If we can channel it in positive ways, I think it can help us understand where we want to go and potentially how to get there.

That's the healthy version.

But I think these instincts that exist inside of Hedda exist inside of all of us.

And I think we do a tremendous amount of pretending that they don't.

And I think it actually gets us further away from our emotional truth.

This is beginning to feel like a theme, just like a period lesbian, just a lesbian of the past, a lesbian of a bygone era.

Well, gosh, you were so young.