Emma Thompson
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While Thompson didn't worry if Winslet was "going to go off the rails," her "Sense and Sensibility" co-star did give her some lasting career advice.
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"To hear people talk about ‘content’ makes me feel like the stuffing inside a sofa cushion."
Telling It from the Heart
"What’s interesting is that the male storytelling, the 'this is where I save the world,' it’s just as obvious, just as if not more repetitive," Thompson said of the action-superhero genre.
"That's the things you remember, not the good ones," Thompson said during the film's 20th anniversary.
"He said, 'You’re going to cry all the way through my speech?'" Thompson recalled Grant asking.
The film adaptation of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical also stars Lashana Lynch and Alisha Weir.
After working on "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande," Thompson disagrees with Bean's recent comments that intimacy coordinators "spoil the spontaneity."
After Searchlight appealed to the Academy, "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande" may power Emma Thompson to a second best actress win after all.
Only by channeling her character, she told IndieWire, was Thompson able to stand in front of her naked body in a mirror and accept herself.
Lashana Lynch stars as Miss Honey, with "Darklands" breakout Alisha Weir as the titular "rebel" Matilda.
