Emma Thompson Is Glad To Play 'Interesting' Roles Again After 'Really Boring' Phase Of Her Career

Dame Emma ThompsonDame Emma Thompson has admitted she’s enjoying this current phase of her career, after being left somewhat uninspired by the roles that she was being offered after turning 40.The two-time Oscar winner is currently promoting the action thriller Dead Of Winter, in which she takes the lead as a woman who finds herself fighting for her survival while travelling in icy conditions in rural Minnesota in one of the most physical roles she’s ever played.Asked by Forbes about what she’s enjoying about this stage of her career, Dame Emma admitted: “I feel really lucky because I feel like since I hit my sixties, I’ve done some of the most interesting parts I’ve ever done.“There was a really boring bit in my forties where everyone wanted me to play people’s wives, doing things like, ‘Hey, don’t go do the brave thing. Stay here with me and the kids’. There were an awful lot of films like that 20 years ago – they were just not good parts.“So now, I seem to be moving into a patch where they’re getting very interesting again, which is encouraging, I think for all of us coming into this area of life - the sort of ‘Third Age’.”She quipped: “Whilst I wouldn’t entirely recommend starting your action career at the age of 66 – it’s a bit stupid, really, and reckless – I still have enjoyed every minute of it. I really have.”Indeed, since turning 60 in 2019, Dame Emma has played Cruella De Vil’s mentor in the Disney origin story Cruella, the terrifying Miss Trunchbull the musical adaptation of Matilda, a corrupt politician in the devastating miniseries Years And Years and a retired schoolteacher going through a late-in-life sexual awakening in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.Read her full interview in Forbes here.READ MORE:Emma Thompson Claims Donald Trump Asked Her Out On The Day Her Divorce Was Finalised And... WowEmma Thompson Makes Very Honest Admission Over How She Really Feels About Her Harry Potter Role17 Times Dame Emma Thompson Cemented Her Status As A National Treasure

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