Of all of the fascinating elements of celebrities’ lives, for me, their meals preferences sit on the prime of the listing. Just some weeks after discovering Pedro Pascal’s concerning Starbucks order, we’re now studying that Tessa Thompson has by no means had a hamburger earlier than, and solely not too long ago tried eggs.
“That is the issue with them. It is like, decide a lane.”
On the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty on March 12, the place In-N-Out burgers had been served, Thompson revealed the enjoyable truth to journalist Amelia Dimoldenberg on the pink carpet. Carrying a tuxedo-style robe with an uncovered rosette bra, the “Creed III” star shared that regardless of not being a vegetarian, she’s by no means had a burger in her life. “It is the one factor extraordinary that I can nonetheless declare,” she mentioned, since she’d not too long ago eaten eggs for the primary time. Referring to the other ways eggs are ready, she added, “That is the issue with them. It is like, decide a lane.”
Days prior, Thompson truly ate her first plate of eggs throughout an look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” on March 4. She defined her concern of eggs was born out of “misinformation,” after which ultimately, it grew to become her schtick and get together trick after a sure age.
“My dad and mom by no means advised me that the eggs that you just eat would by no means grow to be a hen, so morally, I used to be like, they need to be chickens sometime, so I did not eat eggs then,” she shared with Fallon. “Then as soon as I understood that, I simply did not belief them. You realize? As a result of they shape-shift. One second, they’re this. One second, they’re that.” Thompson admitted she would not even eat eggplant for some time as a result of she related the vegetable with eggs.
Regardless of her “Creed III” costars making an attempt to get her to strive eggs (Jonathan Majors apparently ate eight hard-boiled eggs for breakfast throughout filming), Thompson continued to carry off on making an attempt the protein-packed food as a result of “you’ve got gotta maintain on to the methods in which you’ll be distinctive.” However on the present, Fallon offered a plate of scrambled eggs she could not resist. “Really, they are not unhealthy,” she mentioned as her remaining verdict, after what appeared like hours of chewing. “Now it is documented that I’ve eaten an egg. Now I’ve obtained to let it go.”
For extra perception into her meals preferences, watch the interview clips forward.