Tessa Thompson
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Podcast Appearances
Maybe I'm always chasing that now.
I don't see myself as a musician, no, just because I know with anything like it's requisite.
It's sort of like an eat, sleep, breathe.
It is your world and music is not necessarily, but it has such a huge...
And I think in terms of formative early experiences, a lot of those films that I would make with my dad or that time of creation was also at a time when he lived in his studio.
So when I would be spending, because my parents weren't together, I would spend time with my father.
And when I was spending time with my father, I was in Hollywood in this
So there were so many people coming in and out in creation and I would be playing or watching a movie while my dad would be recording.
And so there was this sense of constant music around and constant kind of creation.
And I still work in a very similar way when I'm working on something.
Music is a huge part.
part of how I'm beginning process and character and understanding characters.
There's so much that happens with sort of connecting kind of a sonic landscape with an emotional landscape.
And so I think that had a huge influence on me, for sure.
Firstly, I think she really recognized, because I was doing plays in school and one of my early productions, I remember she came and I had never seen her look at me that way.
I think it was the moment that she realized that I had found something that...
And was going to occupy really so much of my heart and life.