… during the shooting of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, there was a bizarre problem with animals in one scene?
The piglets were not giving listening to the director.
The main problem that White and the crew members were forced to face on set was the scene where the pigs run away from the children: the pigs had a lot of fun being caught and pampered and, consequently, they didn’t like the idea of having to flee.
… part of the cast of Bridget Jones’s diary appears in Harry Potter?
Jim Broadbent (who plays Bridget’s father in the film), Gemma Jones (who plays her mother), Emma Thompson (the gynecologist) and Shirley Henderson (BFF Jude) all four starred in the Harry Potter saga.
Their roles in fact were those of Professor Horace Slughorn, Madam Poppy Pomfrey, Professor Sybil Trelawney and Moaning Myrtle.
…the scene in which Pamela Travers gets on the ground and digs was Emma Thompson’s idea?
According to the script she should only have kneeled but Emma said, “No, she should properly sit down on her ass on the ground.”
And that physical act has been great because it has changed the way of seeing Pamela.
…Emma called Meryl Streep a very good snogger?
She rated her on-screen kisses in Angels in America, during an interview on BBC radio 1.
“There was no stone unturned, my God, that’s for sure. Blimey, what is she doing here? Mining for jewels.” Emma said. 😂
…Emma played a character named Kate three times?
In The tall guy, Last chance Harvey and The love punch her character’s name is Kate.
… Emma produced the film “Sold”, starring Gillian Anderson, based on a Patricia McCormick’s novel, which is based on real-life accounts?
Sold is about slavery in modern India, a topic close to Emma, who has always fought for equality between men and women and against poverty, which is the main cause of social inequalities.
“Because of ‘Sold’s’ marvelous script and courageous and brilliant cast, it is a story that we can all watch – so that we may understand the processes of slavery in modern India and feel able to act without feeling the kind of rage and hopelessness that gets in the way of doing anything,” Emma Thompson said.
… The title of the movie Stranger than fiction comes from a famous quote from Lord Byron’s Don Juan?
“Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!”
… the character Emma felt closest to was Margaret Schlegel?
Emma described her as a sort of loud-mouthed bluestocking with a conservative side, but who finally had to survive breaking the rules.
She felt connected with that character because they had much in common.
That was the only time that Emma wrote to someone asking him to give her the part because she knew how to do it.
… originally Meryl Streep was supposed to play Miss Kenton?
The part of Miss Kenton is one of only four movie roles for which Meryl Streep has ever been turned down.
Surely Meryl would have lived up to that part but I can’t imagine any other actress in that role.
Miss Kenton is the character that made me fall in love with Emma.
… Emma showed up naked during the shooting of Saving Mr Banks?
Bradley Whitford, during The Queen Latifah Show, told they were filming a scene in which Emma was not on screen, so she had taken off the stage clothes and was wearing a comfortable robe.
Whitford was singing “Let’s go fly a kite” and Emma suddenly stood up and opened her robe, staying behind the camera.
She was wearing nothing underneath of the robe but two breast pasties depicting Mickey Mouse 😁
I love Emma Thompson 