AND An icon of British cinema, an actress who has conquered two Oscars and a endless audience of fans. Emma Thompsonwith his sharp intelligence and his irresistible irony, is not one who hides behind the conventions. Passionate, committed and always surprising, the actress lit the Grande Piazza del Locarno Film Festival, where he received the Leopard Club Awardsharing with the public not only deep reflections on feminism and career, but also anecdotes that sound more as small pearls of contemporary history. Like that time, In 1998, in which the phone rang, and on the other side of the thread there was Donald Trump.
Emma Thompson and Donald Trump’s dinner invitation
It was 1998, and Emma Thompson’s life was turning over. After a marriage that lasted six years with Kenneth Branagh, the separation was imminent. Just in those days, on the set of The colors of the victorythe unexpected happened. The phone rang, and a voice on the other side of the thread said: “I’m Donald Trump”. The actress, as she said, thought it was a joke, but after realizing that it was really him, he asked him what he could do to help him. And he: “You should come and visit me in one of my homes. Maybe we could have dinner “. Emma’s answer, cautious and full of uncertainty: “I will let you know ». And so the actress dropped the thing.
Thompson ironized on the possible reason for that call, claiming that Trump had Someone who was looking for “beautiful women divorced to attend” for him “. At that time, even the then magnate had separated from his second wife, Marla Maples. A coincidence that the actress jokingly stressed: «I was surprised. I thought: he looked for me in the list of divorced women. ” And he concluded with a joke that triggered the laughter of the public: “I could also have changed American history!”.
Emma Thompson’s career from the Oscars to Harry Potter
The artistic path of Emma Thompson It is a mosaic of roles and challenges. At the beginning of the career, he performed as a stand-up comedy champion, using humor as a weapon to face patriarchy and politics, such as the Satira on Margaret Thatcherthe “iron lady” which, according to him, “is like herpes, you cannot get rid of it”. His talent has not limited himself to comedy: He won an Oscar for Best Actress For Howard house and a second for the script of Reason and feeling. Her writing ability has led her to be one of the few people to have won an Academy Award for both acting and writing.
Over the years, he starred in iconic films such as Love Actuallywhere she played a woman who discovered her husband’s infidelity, a role that still makes her feel close to the public. His participation in the saga of Harry PotterWhere He played the Divination Professor Sibilla Coomanby his own admission, a chapter in himself: “But he added nothing to my career. I didn’t have an important role. I wore thick glasses, I had the wig and they paid me well: that’s all “. A typical frankness of the star, who is not afraid to reduce even the most iconic roles.
The last cinematographic “fatigue” together with his daughter
At 66 years old, Emma Thompson It does not escape the challenges. His new thriller, The Dead of Winter, plays a woman outside the box and ready for anything to survive. On the set, in extreme conditions, he had to face not indifferent physical labors, admitting: “I think I have ironed every muscle”. The actress, who is also in the film alongside her daughter Gaia Wisedescribed the report on the set as a shared growth experience: “It was very nice because after a long day of work I returned to the hotel and found my mother”.
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