Tessa Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You've got the hair today.
I do have the hair today.
I mean, I'm always trying to be Janet.
But these women meant so, so, so much to me.
And so being on that set with them was just, I mean, like pinching myself every single day.
But also I feel like I'm so deeply aware all the time of just how we're in relation to each other.
You know, the women that both came before me, many of them still working today.
The women that are working currently that feel like they're coming after me, the women that will come after them.
this business because i just know from watching film and television growing up that it meant so much it shaped so much of my ideas of self seeing black women on screen
Yeah, he loved... He always had cameras, whether it was a Super 8 or a digital camera or a still camera.
But then it was relentless.
He was always recording.
And he would use me to test light.