Tonya Mosley

We're kind of the great age of pretending.

And I wanted to unpack that a little bit.

What made it the perfect time period for your adaptation?

Oh my gosh.

Is that what we're going through right now?

I think you're right.

I mean, that's when you say safety comes in conformity.

I mean, I thought about all of those things.

I actually want to play a scene that really gets at the heart of this idea of safety, this conformity.

And it's also at the heart of the dynamic between Hedda and

and her former lover Eileen.

So in this scene I want to play, they've stolen a few moments alone at this party.

And Eileen, who is played by Nina Haas, she's an academic.

She's a rival, as I mentioned, to Hedda's husband in the academic world.

And she's basically telling Hedda, you're wasting your life playing a housewife.

Let's listen.

You could be so much more.

That was a scene from the new movie Hedda, written and directed by my guest today, Nia DaCosta.

I'll tell you, I had to Google that roach can live without its head for.

Were there a lot of ad libs in the film?