Dame Emma Thompson Reveals She Got Seriously Ill Both Times She Attended The Oscars

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work on Howards End in 1992 and for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility in 1995.

But now Dame Emma Thompson, 63, has revealed that she became “seriously” ill both times she attended the Oscars, due to finding “too much pressure and glare”.

speaking to radio schedulesShe also opened up about the difficulties of fame, admitting that she “developed a kind of allergy” to being asked questions about herself.

Dame Emma said: ‘Both times I had to do the Oscars I got seriously ill. I found the pressure and glare too much.

The actress also revealed that she did not want to become a movie star and explained how she got her first TV job by accident.

‘It’s amazing, and then you want to lie down in a dark room. You think, “Please don’t ask me questions or make me talk about myself.”

“I quickly developed something of an allergy to that part of the job. I’m lucky, I think it must be horrible if you’re James Bond.

Speaking to the publication, he said: “I didn’t have the ambition of wanting to be a movie star. It didn’t occur to me.

‘The first performance I did on TV was Tutti Frutti [1987] with Robbie Coltrane. I got it by accident because they needed a woman who could do a Scottish accent and Robbie said, ‘Ask Thompson.’

In the same interview, Emma admitted that ‘romantic love’ is nothing more than a myth, urging those who believe in ‘happily ever after’ to just ‘forget it’.

The actress has been married to her husband Greg Wise, 56, for almost 20 years, and they share daughter Gaia together.

Before that, he went through a very public divorce after his ex husband Kenneth Branagh had a adventure with Helena Bonham Carter in the 1990s.

Emma, ​​who stars in the recently released film What’s Love Got to Do With It? – revealed that long-term relationships are enormously ‘complicated’ and difficult.

She said: ‘It is philosophically helpful and uplifting to remember that romantic love is a myth and quite dangerous. We really have to take it with a big pinch of salt.

“It is essential to think sensibly about love and the way it can grow. Long-term relationships are enormously difficult and complicated! If anyone thinks that happily ever after has a place in our lives, forget it!

Most recently, Emma stars in What’s Love Got To Do With It? is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan.

Movie stars also include Lily James, Shazad, Shabana Azmi, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Speaking about her character in the film, she also told the Radio Times: ‘It’s so inappropriate!

‘She has absolute cloth ears. She’s the type of person who will say: ‘The nice thing about a burqa is that she’s wonderfully forgiving, isn’t she?’ And you just moan.

“Cath represents all of us as we get older, because we always say or do the wrong thing.”

Emma recently praised privacy coordinators as “absolutely essential” after fellow actor Sir Ian McKellen said they can ruin the “purity” of the theatre.

Sir Ian, 83, recently said that in the early stages of his career, matters requiring privacy coordinators would have “solved themselves”.

Speaking to Andrew Marr on LBC on Thursday, Emma dismissed Sir Ian’s comments, saying: “It’s all very well, if you’re a guy, it’s a different kind of thing.”

“I think if you’re a young woman on a set, which is mostly populated by men, 90% of the crew will be made up of men and the women won’t be on the set with you, because generally speaking we don’t have parity.” at any level on film sets, they are all men.

“And that’s a very uncomfortable position for a young woman just starting out in the industry, but it’s absolutely essential that someone is there to protect her. Absolutely essential.

“You can’t imagine what people on some of those big series went through when they first started the broadcast series.

“They were just told when they walked on set, now this is what we have to do… And that’s absolutely outrageous.” So, it’s all very well, if you’re a guy, it’s a different kind of thing.’

Dame Emma’s comments came after Sir Ian told BBC Radio 4: “I imagine there are situations where you have to be careful and people find it difficult to be intimate, and therefore a coordinator is just the thing. you need”.

‘But why can’t it be the director who does that? Why does it have to be someone who has been trained how to do it?

Dame Emma previously expressed her admiration for intimacy coordinators after comments made by Sir Ian’s Lord of the Rings co-star Sean Bean, who said intimacy professionals could “spoil the spontaneity” of scenes in sex.

Other female members of the industry, including Rachel Zegler, also criticized Bean’s comments.

Dame Emma said: ‘It’s not to say that they’re going to be there all the time fixing your breasts, it’s that they can be there in case you feel like there’s a position that you’ve gotten yourself into that you’re not entirely comfortable with, You know, your ass is waving in the air, and you think that I don’t feel quite comfortable…

“I’ve worked with young actresses who have been truly traumatized by their experiences on set.

“So my passion for privacy coordinators and protecting young women in particular, and young men, I mean, it’s not necessarily an easy thing for any one person.”

Gillian Anderson and Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page have also previously praised the intimacy coordinators for their work on the on-screen productions.

It comes after Daryl McCormack revealed how he and co-star Dame Emma prepared for the risqué sex scenes in their latest film, Good Luck To You Leo Grande.

speaking to the independentDaryl, 30, said he and Dame Emma had the help of their director, Sophie Hyde.

She revealed that they shared some intimate details about their paper bodies in rehearsals, before slowly undressing to “tell stories about their bodies.”

He said it was a “beautiful, gentle introduction for us to step into a place of vulnerability.”

“The body map then led us to tell stories behind everything. Then from there, the three of us take off a layer of clothing, one by one, and tell stories about our bodies,” she said.

“Before we knew it, all three of us were naked, and it seemed like we didn’t even take our clothes off at first.” There was a level of comfort that I had never experienced before,” she added.