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Every now and then I like to check in and see what my favorite girl Emma Thompson is doing. Quite a lot, as it turns out. I had no idea Emma had a supporting part in the film An Education, which is getting stellar reviews and early Oscar buzz. Emma plays the fierce headmistress of a girl’s school in 1950s England, where Carey Mulligan’s character attends. The NY Times critic compares Emma to Margaret Thatcher… who knew? It would actually be brilliant casting, and I really can see the marquee clearly: “The Iron Lady… starring Emma Thompson as Margaret Thatcher and Hugh Grant as Ronald Reagan.”
Guess what else Emma is up to? She’s written the new adaptation of My Fair Lady/Pygmalion, which will probably be made with Keira Knightley as Eliza Doolittle. And Emma has just finished another Nanny McPhee film, and she’s going to write a Nanny McPhee book! With all of that going on, do you think her decade-plus relationship with her hottie husband Greg Wise is suffering? Not so much. Because Emma has the secrets to a happy relationship:
Emma Thompson wrote about her spectacularly parsimonious husband, Greg Wise, last year, claiming he made “Oliver Cromwell look like Imelda Marcos”. Now, however, the actress has disclosed her tips for a successful marriage.
“Be alert, be appreciative and work hard,” she tells me. “There is no secret, but never allow yourself to just trundle along – that is when problems start. Remember to go out for dinner if you haven’t seen each other all week and make regular dates.”
Thompson, who divorced Kenneth Branagh in 1995, adds: “I’ve had my heart broken so many times and it is the most painful thing in the world, apart from, perhaps, the Gestapo pulling out your finger nails one by one, but you do get over it.”
[From the Telegraph]
God, I love her. I love everything about her. I love her beautiful words. I want to marry her. I wish she and I had regular dates. Also – I want to know who would dare break my Emma’s heart! I know she’s probably talking about Kenneth Branagh mostly, but Emma also dated Hugh Laurie. And I think she also dated Stephen Fry at one point, maybe. If Hugh broke her heart, that might be enough for me to stop watching House, I swear to God.
Here’s Emma and her husband Greg Wise (on the hay) the London premiere of ‘Morris: A Life With Bells On’ on September 24, 2009. Emma is seen above (with that fabulous hat) at the same premiere.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Emma Thompson, Marriage, Relationships
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it would be news to stephen fry if she did date him -he is gay/celibate-she’s awesome tho-mad as a box of frogs but awesome nonetheless
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Mad as a box of frogs – ROTFL!! Never heard that one! These American ears just love to ‘hear’ overseas accents and expressions.
I love Emma too. So luminous onscreen and off.
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such a talented actress and seems like a lovely woman. a bit loopy for sure, but lovely.
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“These American ears just love to ‘hear’ overseas accents and expressions.”
seconded.
some of the British-isms I’ve heard are SO apt and descriptive.
(on a side note, I did study some linguistics, so differences in language and colloquialisms are especially fascinating to me. Even the diff between words/phrases used in various parts of the US is interesting to me…yes, I’m a language geek.)
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Stephen Fry is definitely gay; to the best of my knowledge he’s been with his current chap – whose name escapes me – for many years.
He and Emma never dated but they’re old, old friends from university, and she did say on British TV recently that she used to love to horrify Stephen by locking him in a room and then advancing on him, naked, shaking her breasts at him and shouting, “Yes, baby, they’re all yours!”
She said he’d squeal but he “couldn’t get away, and it’s tremendously funny to make someone terribly clever fall apart like that”.
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Stephen Fry is gay and was open about it since attending Cambridge where they met. They never dated.
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Mmmm am I the only one who finds Greg Wise delectable? I like how they were in S&S together, too.
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what makes her ‘mad as a box of frogs’?
she’s colorful and eccentric,but does that make her mentally unstable?
not to be too serious about it-
but she seems perfectly adjusted and functional to me—just zany.
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Join the club sister. It comes with the territory.
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I know! Eccentricity is good. And yeah, it comes with the territory of being creative and/or a highly intelligent, interesting person. I have no use for conventional types that don’t get my twisted sense of humor. Boring!!!
Love Emma too, terrific actress, honest, funny and attractive. What’s not to like?
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@Lenore, I love that story! Never heard it before, but I hope it’s true. Would be terribly funny to see. I love me some Stephen Fry, mmm.
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@ Praise St. Angie: My personal favorite is “mind the gap” where Americans say “watch your step”. Love me some language trivia and Emma Thompson too!
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LOVE HER!
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I did love her, but sadly no longer.
Since she signed that damn ‘Free Roman Polaski Petition’.
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@ Emily – just for you, here’s the clip. They’re both in it, it’s from a British panel show called QI on which Emma was a guest (Stephen presents the show).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ve9pm12VJA&feature=PlayList&p=9A40F7F59727BBE0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=33
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her.. always did, always will. Heart and brains .. and a lot of wit too. Can’t get enough of Emma.
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@14 I agree…she broke my heart with that one.
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My favorite everyday difference is “well done” when Americans would say, “good job” or “good work.” Well done is better.
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hey Meh, meh.
She took it back when she understood the circumstances.
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