“I want the next thing I do to feel like something I have to do, something that will be life changing,” Thompson vowed to herself. Most of the auditions she went on were “race specific,” says Thompson, “and not a lot of it was incredibly compelling.” She left her hometown of Los Angeles for New York and took a break from acting. She worked steadily for a decade doing live Shakespeare, BBC period pieces, teen dance flicks and the occasional indie, like the role of Nyla, a dancer who survives a horrific abortion in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. As she and her on-screen blonde girlfriend sped towards a closed bridge in a vintage Ford pick-up truck, Thompson recalls herself thinking, “I could do this forever.” She’d dreamed of becoming an actress ever since her father, a Panamanian R&B/folk musician who plays under the moniker Chocolate Genius, Inc., took her to see Amelie. Thompson got to wear a man’s three-piece pinstripe suit and fedora, and taught herself to smoke old-fashioned Nat Sherman cigarettes.
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Her first on-camera role in 2005 was a one-episode gig as a bootlegging, poetry-spouting Depression Era lesbian on the TV show Cold Case. At least she makes an impression.Īnd while the 33-year-old actress may best be known for her role as the cutthroat corporate suit in HBO’s Westworld, she does love to play kooks. But when this callous woman-in-command exits her spaceship to claim her prisoner, she’s so drunk she falls off the gangplank.
To her, the Prince of Asgard is worth nothing more than a bottle. “Sometimes she’ll do half-booze and half-money, which makes her feel sort of better than spending it all on drinks,” Thompson muses, laughing. Her character, Valkyrie, a traumatized Asgarian expat, fits right in she makes a living capturing potential gladiatorial combatants and selling them to the Grandmaster (played Jeff Goldblum) for booze. Tessa Thompson doesn’t saunter into Thor: Ragnarok until the end of the first act, when Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder crash-lands on the planet Sakaar – a “fantastically depraved place,” she says.
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