Filmmaker Nia DaCosta puts a modern and a queer twist to Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play Hedda Gabler, with her latest film Hedda. Instead of traditional retelling, Nia brings in major narrative shifts, the most significant being the introduction of a queer storyline. Eilert Lovborg, originally Hedda's ex-lover, becomes Eileen Lovborg, a women who not only shares a past with Hedda but is also vying for the same professorship as Hedda's husband, George Tesman.