In this Screen Tests interview, actress Tessa Thompson (Selma, Dear White People) talks about her love of Harold and Maude, her politically incorrect crush on Jim Carrey in the Ace Ventura movies, and “the bravery of being silly.”

Tessa Thompson wears a Gucci dress.

Transcript
What movie makes me cry?
Harold and Maude.
Mostly just when they find each other.
Then there's a couple scenes in her place too,
when you realize that he's desperately
in love with her now that he's found his one,
and then you know that she's made this plan.
Yeah.
This is a very odd crush,
but ever since I was a kid, Jim Carrey.
I like Dumb and Dumber,
but what really put the nail in the coffin for me
was all of the Ace Ventura movies.
I was like, Someone else that likes to speak
from their ass.
Something about just the bravery of being that silly
and that without dignity or self-awareness.
In Ace Ventura, I know it's so politically incorrect,
but when he's in Africa and he's like,
Your balls are showing, Bumblebee tuna.
I just, as a kid, I just love that joke.



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