Tessa Thompson on Bianca’s journey in Creed 3: "She’s at the heart of these films"

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In Creed 3 (opens in new tab), Tessa Thompson’s Bianca fights to keep the Creed family strong (while Jonathan Majors’ new adversary fights to take his former best friend’s title). Total Film sits down with Hollywood heavyweight Thompson to talk about the big-hitting franchise, representation, and how she keeps her own eye of the tiger in light of huge career success.

Thompson, the star of Creed and Creed 2, Westworld, Passing, Dear White People and various MCU movies as (King) Valkyrie, talks lucidly and passionately about the role of filmmaking in society – about "telling stories" and "collaboration" and "curiosity" and "inspiration."

Creed 3 sees Thompson reprise her role as Bianca, the Philly singer with progressive hearing loss who is partner to heavyweight champion of the world Adonis Creed (Michael. B Jordan, who also directs) and mother to their daughter Amara (Mila Davis-Kent), born Deaf in Creed 2.

The upcoming threequel promises drama, dynamism and devastation. Here's Thompson's interview with Total Film, edited for length and clarity.

Total Film: Where does Creed 3 find Bianca in life?

Tessa Thompson: You know, we find her sort of like we find Adonis. She’s retired in some ways. I mean, she’s still very much making music and has been performing. I think she is doing the thing that I feel like many of us have been tasked with, certainly during the height of the pandemic, which is: "Who am I outside of what I do, and who I am in relation to family?" But I think the things that the audiences have responded to in Bianca throughout the course of the franchise, still remain about her. She continues to be a force in Adonis’ life, and challenges him to be the best version of himself, while also maintaining her own