Tonya Mosley

Thanks to changes in what and how we eat, like the prevalence of ultra-processed foods.

and the popularity of food delivery.

Nestle guides us through today's supermarket maze and the influences that determine what's on our plate.

I hope you can join us.

Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham, with special thanks to Jason Revy in Sheboygan.

With Terry Gross, I'm Tanya Mosley.

This is Fresh Air.

I'm Tanya Mosley.

And today I'm talking with director Nia DaCosta, who's had a meteoric rise over the past few years.

Little Woods, her first feature in 2018, was an intimate story about two sisters in North Dakota who turned to a life of crime to make ends meet.

It got a lot of attention, including from Jordan Peele, who later brought DaCosta on to reimagine the horror classic Candyman.

That film made DaCosta the first Black woman to direct a movie that opened at number one at the U.S.

box office.

DaCosta made history again with the Marvels, becoming the youngest director and first Black woman to helm a film in the Marvel Universe.

And now she's turned to something even more personal.

a project she wrote years ago and never let go of.

It's called Hedda, and it's DaCosta's take on Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play Hedda Gabler.

In DaCosta's hands, the story becomes a dark exploration of a woman suffocating in a life she never wanted, trapped in a 1950s English manor house over the course of one wild, unsettling night.

Tessa Thompson stars as Hedda, and here's a scene at the start of the film where police interrogate her about what happened that night.

What ensues is a dark and twisted tale of jealousy and control.