Emma Thompson turned 50 years old in April, and she recently discussed her year-long birthday plans. She’s taking the year off! So sad – one of my favorite actresses isn’t going to grace us with her presence for a full year. Not only isn’t she going to act, she not going to write either. Emma says that her only interest will be motherhood and teaching drama at her daughter’s school – which sounds like work to me. Harder work than acting or writing, anyway. On the other hand, how cool would it be to have Emma Thompson as your drama coach?
Emma Thompson has revealed that she plans to take a year off from making movies.
Having filmed Last Chance Harvey and the second Nanny McPhee film, she intends to reward herself with a break, having turned 50 in April.
“I’m taking a year off. That’s my birthday present to myself,” she said.
“I’m not going to act, write or anything like that. I’ll be a mum, teach drama at my daughter’s school, I’ll cook meals and have fun, go out with my friends, I’ll go to movies and not think about working. I’ll see what bubbles up after that.”
“As an actor and writer, sometimes I think you have to stop creating and let your brain relax. I think it hones the appetite. I think that’s important.”
The two-time Oscar winner, who’s married to fellow thesp Greg Wise, said turning 50 is a big deal.
“It is a big milestone,” she admitted.
“It is one of the biggest because when you reach it, you can turn around and say, ‘I’m going to be a naturalist now’. You can say whatever you want.”
[From The Press Association]
Emma is so cool to be talking about her age so openly. It probably helps that she has a hot younger husband who worships the ground she walks on – Greg Wise is only 43 years old, and he’s always seemed content to let Emma have whatever spotlight she wants. Sigh. I wish I was as cool as Emma.
On an Emma-related side note, I recently watched both Last Chance Harvey and the new version of Brideshead Revisited. I was a bit disappointed with both of them. Harvey was more depressing than the “romantic-comedy” label usually indicates. And Brideshead – well, Emma was very good in it, but she needed to be in it more! The film world in general needs more Emma Thompson.
Emma Thompson is shown with her husband, Greg, on 6/3/09 at the Last Chance Harvey premiere in London. Credit: WENN.com
I’m trying to think of something about Emma Thompson that makes me feel anything other than, “How cool!”
Nope, nothing. Every time I hear about her, she’s awesome in a new way.
Reruns of Sense and Sensibility have been on lately and I watch them over and over. Both she and Greg are in the film. She is amazing in the film, as are the others – it’s one of my favorites.
I agree Bub, Sense and Sensibility has a lot of my favourite actors all lumped into a really great package: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Hugh Laurie. I also watch it over and over. I’m so glad I bought the DVD.
I love Emma Thompson. Fantastic at 50, good on her for doing something a little different. I also saw Last Chance Harvey on the weekend and loved it. I suppose I wasn’t really expecting a romantic-comedy, not a traditional one anyway. It was pretty English in the sad and at times brutally honest tone that ran through it. Both Emma and Dustin Hoffman were brilliant.
love her. and i don’t know who her husband is but he sure is cute.
She looks fantastic. I love me some Austen, and S&S is one of my favorites. She played unrequited love to a “T”, especially the scene where Edward tells her he hasn’t married, and she basically loses it. I didn’t make the connection between her and “Willoughby”, he looks so different !
Holy crap, that’s her husband? You go, girl. He’s way cute (of course, he has to be to match up with her), and they’re just gorgeous together.
Also, Emma Thompson as a teacher? I never thought I’d be so jealous of gradeschoolers.
Emma. Is. Awesome. Thanks for talking about her! More always welcome….
Like her, hate the updo. 🙁