"In the play, Hedda is constantly talking about Eilert Lövborg, now the woman Eileen, so there is this big expectation. Who is this person that seems to be on Hedda's mind? Everyone seems a little afraid and a little unsure. She seems to have changed. So something's up, but there a history between those two. But no one knows exactly what, as well. And then she arrives."
"In '50s England, her professional academic lesbian shows up in a provocatively sexy outfit with a gauzy bodice. Unlike the rotten food color palette of dark and yellowish greens and dark reds that DaCosta deploys to suggest "that something's not quite right in this world that we're seeing," said Hoss, costume designer Lindsay Pugh put her in a black corset, "not too business-y. And we knew the top [had] to be see-through.""
Nina Hoss appears in Nia DaCosta's adaptation Hedda as Eileen Lövborg, a gender-swapped version of Ibsen's Eilert Lövborg. Tessa Thompson plays Hedda; Hoss previously played Hedda on the German stage fifteen years earlier. Hoss emphasizes that the scripted entrance builds expectation and suspense by leveraging Hedda's repeated references to Eilert/Eileen and the characters' ambiguous history. Costume designer Lindsay Pugh dresses Eileen in a black corset and a gauzy, see-through top to project confidence and allure within a 1950s England setting. DaCosta's color palette uses dark, yellowish greens and reds to suggest unease. Eileen appears outwardly confident but harbors other anxieties.
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