Emma Thompson ‘not impressed’ by attitudes to women in acting

The Oscar-winning actress’ latest role is that of a 77-year-old prostitute in The Legend Of Barney Thomson.

But she admits to feeling deeply saddened by a sexism divide that plagues the movie industry, claiming it’s worse than she’s ever known in her lifetime. So no, I am not impressed, at all. (Spoiler alert: Nothing has really changed.). I think it’s still completely shit, actually.

In a recent interview with The Radio Times, the actress didn’t pull any punches, saying, “I think it’s still completely s** strong *Rose McGowan’s public battle against her agent to Amanda Seyfried’s intriguing blind-item reveal about a male co-star who made 10 times her salary”. Oddly, as much as attitudes towards women have evolved over the years, she says things have worsened in this particular arena.

Thompson joins the likes of legendary actors Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who have recently decried Hollywood’s gender gap, denouncing the sexism in the industry and lack of film roles for older women.

The 56-year-old global warming alarmist also said conversations with younger female colleagues have helped her better grasp the issues women are facing. “It would be really nice to get someone who is actually 77 to play her, but it’s a wildly comic role and I couldn’t resist”, she says.

‘It’s a different patch of life, your 50s, ‘ she told The Guardian, adding ‘Not in a frightful way, but…’.

Thompson is the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for acting in and writing the same film: 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility“. “It is not you anymore, it is a character that you can then inhabit”.