Tessa Thompson Says She’s “Never Had a Hamburger in My Life”

Tessa Thompson might want to consider broadening her culinary horizons after admitting on the red carpet that she’s never had one fast food staple.

While speaking to Amelia Dimoldenberg during an interview at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, the actor casually revealed, “I’ve never had a hamburger in my life.” When asked if that’s because she’s a vegetarian, she replied, “No. I eat other things, I’ve just never had a hamburger.” Thompson then added with a laugh, “It’s the only thing extraordinary that I can still claim.”

 However, she then went on to claim something else pretty extraordinary, which is that she also only “recently” had an egg for the first time, but doesn’t get what all the hype is about. “I had never had one of those. I don’t think they’re great,” she confessed. When Dimoldenberg expressed that “eggs are so cool” because of all the different ways you can cook them, the Creed III star replied, “That’s the problem with them. It’s like, pick a lane.” But when asked about another famously versatile food—potatoes—she admitted, “I love potatoes.”

This revelation comes shortly after Thompson made a very different sort of confession during an interview with Refinery29 earlier this month. She explained that she and Michael B. Jordan went to couple’s therapy together in character in preparation for their roles in the third installment of the Creed franchise in which she plays Jordan’s character’s wife, Bianca. “The line sometimes between character and us get blurred because we bring so much of what we’re exploring personally to the characters in general,” she explained of the experience. “I’ll say it was an early experience in couples therapy for us both [personally], but it was as these characters, which is very weird. But I think it reminded us of our own personal lives that going to therapy, even when a relationship is good, can be a good thing if you’re trying to just sharpen communication and figure out how someone works. It’s useful in so many relationships.” She added that while they were playing a character in those sessions, they were “also reflecting on our own relationships. Since we’ve been making these movies for eight, nine years, we’ve seen each other through various stages in our own romantic things.” She concluded, “We know stuff about each other’s lives. We shared and talked about it. So therapy ended up starting at work and getting more personal.”