Tessa Thompson is sharing a hilarious story about the time she got too high to function while trying to record music.
During a recent interview on The Graham Norton Show, Thompson opened up about immersing herself in the musician lifestyle while making songs for the Creed II soundtrack, which included a particularly memorable studio smoke session gone wrong.
"I grew up around musicians a lot, and I've sort of come from a musical family," the Creed and Thor: Love and Thunder star said. "But I'm not a trained musician at all. When we were making music, I was like, 'I really want to immerse myself in the musician's life,' so [composer] Ludwig Göransson and I locked ourselves in a studio for two weeks to make this original music."
The creative process was full of fun until some of the musicians decided to light up, and Thompson felt she had to do the same.
"Now I'm a musician," she said. But what was supposed to be a bonding moment turned into total paralysis.
"It was like the stoniest I've ever been in my entire life," Thompson said with a laugh. "I remember just being there on the couch and them being like, 'OK, let's lay down some vocals,' and being like, 'I don't know how to move.'"
The experience spiraled into a mix of self-doubt and panic before she managed to pull it together:
"Everyone was mad, I was mad at myself," she recalled. "I had to go outside and be like, 'OK, get back in there, you can do it.' And then I did, and it was fine. But I was like, 'OK, I'm never going to smoke pot again when I have to perform.'"
