Emma Thompson on How She Got into Screenwriting | On Writing

Actress Emma Thompson sits down with BAFTA to discuss how she got into screenwriting, the influence of her father, acting, and more!
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[@baftaguru]

What's your favourite Emma Thompson film?

[@actoralliedoody9961]

Sense and Sensibility for sure! She's had an amazing career!

[@TubenIt83]

Love Actually

[@Shanizue]

Sense and sensibility

[@jazzguitar3441]

Oh dear... can't decide... Imagining Argentina is a stunning and heartbreaking performance, so is Howard's End, Love Actually... Peter's Friends is just hilarious, so is Much Ado About Nothing, Late Night ... Sense&Sensibility of course...and Love Punch is just cute and up-lifting. 'Stranger than fiction' is wonderfully confusing.... Children Act is brilliant and I am so happy with this movie, not only because Emma plays so extraordinarily, but especially because she is on screen for most of the time so I enjoyed it even more.... I really can't decide, there is one for every situation and mood.... I personally never wanted to stop watching The Winter Guest... And of course Sweeney Todd was absolutely marvellous!

[@n.q1158]

Oh, that's nearly impossible to decide. Sense and Sensibility is one of my favourites for sure. Then there's Saving Mr Banks and her amazing performance as PL Travers, I honestly think no one else could have played that role. The crying scene in Love Actually is heartbreaking, of course, I loved her version of the song Beauty and the Beast, The Love Punch is hilarious, and her latest movies like The Children Act and Late Night were so different but both insanely good. You just can't pick one because even though she might have been in "bad" movies, she just has never BEEN bad in a movie, her performances are simply different kinds of excellence.

[@imanhafizal]

oh wow shes so good

[@Myriam70]

The remains of the day, without any doubt.

[@davidscott7063]

'Lots of crying and gnashing of teeth' and willingness to cry and gnash your teeth which takes courage and determination.

[@TubenIt83]

Love Emma! Hate the camera work in this though.

[@halflanding1900]

Agreed. I can understand this isn’t a studio so they’d be limited in terms of camera angles, but the shots from the seats makes it look like an amateur shot it from the audience, and while one or two inserts may have been ok there’s too much switching and it’s distracting.