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- The Strange Intimacy Of Emma Thompsons New Film, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
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- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Movie Review
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Emma Thompson Talks Filming Nude Scenes in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
-Our first guest tonight,is an Academy Award and Emmy-winning actress,who you know from films such as “Love, Actually,”,”Sense and Sensibility,” and “Cruella.”,She stars in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,”,which begins streaming on Hulu tomorrow.,Lets take a look.,-What does she think about what — what youre doing now?,-You want to talk about my mother? Really?,-Well, you brought her up.,-Well, now Im dropping it.,-But seriously.,-She doesnt know.,-Mm.,-You know, this looks so sexy on you.,-What does she think you do?,-If I tell you, can we drop it?,Because you really do look good in this.,-I promise.,-She thinks I work at an oil rig.,-[ Laughs ],-Please welcome back to the show,the always wonderful Emma Thompson, everyone!,[ Cheers and applause ],♪♪,♪♪,Oh, I feel like…,I feel like this is a step back to normalcy.,We havent had you here since 2019.,It was worth waiting for an audience to have you back.,-I started swimming in 2019.,I just arrived.,-You — Oh! You came… -Yeah, I just thought,,you know, COVID arrived, so I just thought,”Id better get going now.” -Oh, thats so smart.,-If Im gonna make it for Seth in 2022.,-And you swam all the way here.,-All the way.,-Now, do you have to wear one of those…,I feel like theres a buoy you pull behind yourself,so the ships know someones swimming.,-Yeah. -Did you wear one of those?,-I did. I did. I did.,You may be able to tell, ladies and gentlemen,,we havent prepared for this. [ Laughter ],So this is something thats just come out of my –,-Yeah. -Literally.,I just had this thought that somehow 2019…,Years have gone by, and its so weird,cause we would have seen each other.,We would all have been in the same room together.,And look, youre all still having to wear masks.,Im so sorry. Of course, weve banished COVID,and, you know, like, what I call Party Land now.,-Yeah. -The UK.,-Yeah, theres no masks over there now.,-No, no. No, everyones just gone…,No. -Yeah, well…,Congratulations on pretending its over.,-Thank you so much. We all have it.,Obviously, yeah, everyones got it.,-Yeah, yeah, exactly. [ Both laugh ],-Now, this is a wonderful film,,and I guess this was a bit of a –,maybe not born out of COVID,,but this was a — this was a short shoot.,This is 19 days.,You did this wonderful film in 19 days.,Can you tell us a little bit about the movie?,-For sure. Now, its written by,a comedian called Katy Brand, who Id worked with.,She sent me the script,and its about — its about a religious education teacher,,retired, my age — 63,,who has been widowed for two years,and has — apart from anything else,,had never had an orgasm.,And shes had a deeply rudimentary sex life,,having once had a sort of wonderful experience,when she was 16 on a Greek island.,To which I relate. [ Laughter ],And anyway, she hires a very much younger sex worker,played by the exquisite and brilliant Daryl McCormack,,as you saw in that clip.,And its about them getting to know one another,,but in the most unexpected ways.,They make assumptions about one another,,and youve never seen — I have never seen these people before.,Ive seen Nancy, cause shes the sort of person,who gets to be in movies,and be next to the person who does the interesting thing.,-Uh-huh.,-But shes never the person,who does the interesting thing.,You know, shes the mother or the wife or the taxi driver,or the waitress or whatever.,You know, shes just “Woman.”,Blonde, you know, pretty, whatever.,But now, suddenly, shes doing something,completely fascinating,,utterly radical and revolutionary,with a young man Ive never seen before,,who is a sex worker,,but, like, hes a sex carer.,Hes so compassionate and understanding.,You know, she spends quite a lot of the film going,,”Please, dont make me, I cant do that.”,Shes just utterly panicked by what shes done.,And he says, “Why is it –,youve organized this, youve thought about it,,youve went online, you chose me,,youve paid for it.,So now youve got what you want,,and Im very here willing to do this.,Why cant you take it?”,And she says, “I dont know.,It feels controversial all of a sudden.”,And I think its because women are not,traditionally invited to think about what they might want,,and theyre certainly not invited to think,about what gives them pleasure.,And I think that were very bad –,weve ostracized sex anywhere.,I mean, sex is supposed to be naughty, dirty.,You know, its just something that we laugh at, actually,,instead of respecting it as one of the primary,forces in our lives.,And if you think about other pleasures in our lives,,like food, were completely obsessed.,I mean, people will talk about food from dawn until dusk,,you know, but we dont talk about sex.,-Right. -We really dont talk about it.,-Well, our mouths are full.,-Well, yeah. Thats true. [ Laughter ],-Yeah. -There is nudity in the film.,Were you trepidatious about the nudity?,Were you… How did you feel?,-Well, I did once spend three days naked,with Jeff Goldblum some years ago.,-Okay. -I mean…,-Not the worst fella to end up naked with.,-I mean, it was for work.,I hasten to add, this was a working situation.,-Yeah. [ Laughter ],-“The Tall Man”?,-Yeah. It was “The Tall Guy.”,-“The Tall Guy.” -Yeah. Yeah.,-Thats an impressive pull. I want a little credit,for pulling “The Tall Guy.” -[ Laughs ],Im really impressed. It was a million years ago.,But anyway, we both had indigestion for weeks,before that cause we were so scared.,But actually, it gave me a little confidence,because when you are stripped on set,,its quite sort of…,it makes everybody very, very careful.,But its also very funny,cause if, like, props come up to you with something,,theyll come up to you,and theyll come up to your face and go,,”Here you go, Seth. Heres your prop.”,And then theyll walk away, but not looking down.,No looking down. “Yes, heres your…”,And then they walk away, keeping their eyes up,,just in case you think that theyre looking.,-Right. -But its actually…,Its rather a leveling thing to do.,The director, Daryl, and I spent one day,in a closed set rehearsing.,And we all, we just took our clothes off,and we did it bit by bit and looked at our bodies,and said, “Well, I dont like this bit,because, well, Ive got a scar here.”,And then we drew around them,and wrote on them.,And when you do maps of your body like that,,it just becomes the thing that you can accept,and you can look at with a neutral gaze.,And youre not just always looking in the mirror,and going, “Thats just wrong.,What can I do?,Im gonna — I know what Im gonna do!,Im gonna waste my passion, my energy,,my curiosity,,my money, and my lifes purpose,worrying about my body.,Thats what Ill do. What a good idea!”,Welcome! Yeah, lets do that.,Its so much fun!,[ Cheers and applause ],No! Stop it, everyone. Stop it.,There are 8-year-olds out there,saying, “I dont like my thighs.”,-Its crazy. -Weve got to…,We have to just, like, kick it into the long grass.,-Theres something…,Hopefully, you know, this is not a film,for 8-year-olds, but this is very exciting.,-No, so not. Yeah. -“Matilda” is.,-Ah, indeed. -And I would like to close,by showing that…,This is just wonderful that youre gonna be in “Matilda.”,And it should be noted, obviously,,this is Miss Trunchbull? -Mm-hmm.,-This is quite a…,This is quite a bit of prosthetic work here.,-Yeah. -Yeah.,Im assuming she does not have a nude scene.,Is that safe to say? [ Laughter ],-Oh, I wish.,You should have seen my underwear.,Now, theres someone who needs the services of a sex worker.,[ Laughter ],-Oh, boy.,-Maybe as kind of like a parting gift.,A wrap gift. -[ Laughs ] Yeah.,-Thank you so much for being here.,Congratulations on the film.,Its always such a wonder to be with you.,-Its great to see you. -Emma Thompson, everybody.,”Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”,begins streaming on Hulu tomorrow.,Well be right back with Jack Quaid.
Mark Kermode Reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Kermode and Mayos Take
um okay so there is theres a movie if its not live ,youre saying its hard to get jesus and moses in the same thing in a world in which the number ,one movie is dinosaurs and people that is so you know thats a very good point thank you um ,all of the poster action once theyve scraped you and me off the buses has either been light year or ,our next movie good luck to you leo grand which is the new film um starring emma thompson which ,is directed by sophie hyde who made animals and written by katie brand and its basically ,a kind of rather stagey but often very very funny two-hander in which emma thompson plays nancy who ,is a retired religious studies teacher who has we learned very early on never had an orgasm and ,has spent her whole life married to the same man who was now deceased and it turns out that their ,their intimate life was spectacularly unintimate and she now finds herself in a position in which ,she wants to know what all the fuss was about so she hires a sex worker a gigolo played by dan ,mccormack who is leo who she she rents a hotel room and she gets him to come to the hotel room ,and she says okay this is the thing basically ive got a list of stuff that i want to get through ,a list of things that i want to get through and thats what youre here for heres a clip ,you dont have to worry nancy this is just about oz tonight so what is your fantasy,um im not sure you could really class it as a fantasy as such its a bit mundane for that ,okay well what would you most desire i mean desires are never mundane,um,to have sex tonight um with you thats about it really for the moment great i suspect that there ,was more to her list than that than that there was and then what she says is that you know i want to ,do this i want to do this i want to do this if thats what they still call it and then i want ,to do the other but i dont want to do this thing and so she has a very kind of school teacherly ,manner shes literally got a list and she says i want to get through this list and he says ,what all today and she said well youre quite expensive so thats kind of like a running order ,it is precisely an order of service an order of service oh there we go and um what she knows about ,sex workers is pretty much the fact that as a as an re teacher she would regularly set an essay ,which was should sex work be legalized and the answer was always the same because everyone would ,just wikipedia it and then wed just sort of copy and copy and paste the wikipedia answer so what ,the film then becomes is its a series a chaptered series of encounters between nancy and leo in this ,room in which she talks about her regrets about what she has and hasnt done with her life and ,worries about whether or not shes exploiting him because hes a sex worker he keeps trying ,to say to her you know well firstly you know i we understand hes playing a role because obviously ,what he does is hes role-playing and there are times when she oversteps the boundaries about ,respecting his privacy and kind of imagines this as being something more than that ,but she also because of who she is cannot put aside her sort of her fussiness and her ,bruisedness in terms of i want to do this this this and this this is how were going to do it ,so on the plus side its a its a film which is you know very sort of frank and very open about ,the sexuality and it has two very good performances i mean both emma thompson ,uh and im comic are very good performers i mean you know im a huge fan of emma thompson ,have been for ages and ages im not somebody whos of a with peaky blinders but obviously ,everyone knows that diamond cobra is a very good performer so good performances the script which is ,witty often laugh out loud funny in its kind of the way in which its it has that kind of i mean ,british sex comedies are not something to be proud of most of the time but this is something which is ,its very very well written if i have a problem with it its that i never for one moment believed ,that i was actually watching those characters what i believed i was watching was two very ,accomplished actors playing those characters i mean its interesting because obviously the ,role of leo in order for him to do the job he is playing a role so hes an actor playing a ,role of somebody playing a role but i always felt that i was watching actors playing a role ,one of whom hes playing a role in another room is also playing a role because theyre adopting sort ,of all you know alternative uh identities for the purpose of anonymity which then kind of falls away ,if at times i was reminded of do you remember that film hope springs with tommy lee jones ,and uh meryl streep yeah yeah so i had a kind of similar um kind of comedy about the awkwardness ,of dealing with with sex at a certain point in your life when its kind of fallen away ,and you know that there are you know desires and things but but you dont have a language ,with which to discuss them and you dont you know youve kind of youre sort of almost beyond ,the point when you could approach it without it being a difficult awkward issue and i actually ,thought hope springs was a pretty decent film however if you compare this for example with ,something like the mother which is anne reed and daniel craig in a comparable situation ,the whole tone of the mother is very different i mean the mother isnt the comic movie the mother ,is much more a kind of serious drama in the mother i absolutely believed in and read and i absolutely ,believed in daniel craig all the way through in this what i thought i was watching was a ,stagey i mean it is stagey it is theatrical i can almost imagine it being performed ,as a stage play very well written very witty very well performed ultimately however performative ,film about these two people having a frank conversation about sexuality its good that its ,i mean it is its progressive in its attitude towards um towards sex towards age toward ,gender all those things i wish that i bought into it more i wish that i had been swept away ,from it ive read so many articles and heard so many interviews and people talking about ,why its you know fantastically positive that that this film is here now and talking about ,these subjects and i think thats all fine i just think that i wasnt quite as bowled over by it as ,i would like to have been that said it is you know still subversive and enjoyably whimsical ,the steven renick score kind of amplifies that whimsicality and its very easy to watch because ,it has two very good performers giving two very good performances and when youve seen ,it if youd like to take part in the conversation correspondence at curbingmao.com also the email
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i thought how dare you im a good movie yeah i like dark ah i got really like si ,im 16 year old about it ive made a list of things that id like to get through number one ,i perform oral sex on you number two you perform oral sex on me number three we do a 69 if thats ,what its still called i just fell in love with your characters theyre just amazing i loved it ,so fresh and unique there are so many intimate honest scenes in this what were your first ,impressions of each other well i thought hes tall daryl came to mind and we went for a long walk ,and talked and my first impression was of someone immensely thoughtful that was my first impression ,i mean obviously tall and gorgeous and all of that yeah but the actual sort of soul impression was of ,of this deep thinking profound thinker i felt very safe around emma very instantly and i think thats ,something you cant really work for i think its something that emerges has she was very inviting ,in terms of collaboration and she really wanted to know what i thought about this i felt really ,well like respected and encouraged and seen and um i felt as as a film goes in terms of how much ,these two people are intimate and vulnerable with one another but also as actors ,the amount of relying we would have done with each other it just felt super exciting um that ,was my first yeah and the other thing actually thats that i felt that i havent said this before ,but its really important is that um i didnt feel as though i was going to have to look after ,cheryl i wasnt going to have to mother him or worry about him worrying about being younger and ,less experienced i didnt feel that at all we met a couple of hours later we were two actors ,attending to these two people and our all we were thinking about was how do we make these two people ,really really alive because we knew they had to be so bloody real realer than real ,you know and they were and the chemistry between you both is just so genuine i think so many ,people would benefit from spending time with leo grant emma out of the previous characters youve ,played who would you love to see spend time with leo oh thats such a great great question well ,um well eleanor dashwood yeah that would be tricky wouldnt it um in her empire line with ,her very tightly guarded morals um i dont know how well that would go im not married,no,it would be great for alan rickmans wife in love actually to to hire daryl at leo as a kind of ,you know some sort of rebalancing in the equation my expectations are not that high ,after 13 years of mr oh but you always love scarves its a very very funny question this ,could be the perfect sequel im calling it okay yeah weve got to make this happen now okay ,um daryl it must be the dream though getting to work with the emma thompson ,what are your favorite emma thompson movies this interview is all going to be all about me ,yes just wanting to let you know right now rightfully so i thought you know one one thing ,that moment pops out to me that didnt make it into the film and its a very cliche film that ,you did but um its as in its like its a big film so the harry potter character you played ,yeah but i just thought the joy and the fear and the kind of i dont know i thought especially ,in those worlds when those characters can be so annoying youre only saying that because thats ,the only film that youre old enough to remember together we shall cast ourselves into the future ,ive wanted to talk to you both about your dancing that dance scene because i loved it do you enjoy ,dancing when youre filming because i would find it just so embarrassing is there music ,playing like what was going on i like your dance i think we felt perfectly free we had ,done a little rehearsal of what that dance was for the camera movement because the camera was kind ,of wrapping around us at the same time um but that actual dance became came quite organic we actually ,just played that song in rehearsal and that was more or less the first take kind of was what you ,kind of see in the film yeah we set it and then we did it with a steady cam many times with the music ,um and then sometimes with the music in our ears which was kind of weird ,remember and that was kind of a little bit odd and not not quite so much fun but i love dancing ,i mean i really love dancing i give a dance party every year which is just dancing because i love it ,um so so the song was interesting because we didnt have access we couldnt choose a wonderful ,song that we loved because its too expensive the performing rights etc so we we were given a few ,songs to listen to and there was a sort of jazzy one and there was a kind of 1940s one but that all ,felt wrong for them and then this song was just so wonderful and when i hear it now it just brings ,back this sense of two people and i think nancy could relate to it because it was a little bit ,eighties you know yeah its kind of the blues a little bit kind of ,you know poppy yeah so she could understand it its not like it was suddenly yeah ,alien chemical my chemical reaction you know blink h182 you know i dont know how to answer this ,in fact this is traumatizing me this song is actually traumatizing me yeah exactly ,you know what i mean its the moment nancy realizes leos terrible taste ,yes hes got terrible taste and he plays something horrible you both had moves are you aware that ,the internet went wild for your dancing at the adele show i was informed about that,i think the word that somebody used was mumsy which i was extremely offended by i thought how ,dare you im a good movie yeah i like dark ah i got really sick im 16 year old about it mumsy ,the word is iconic the word is iconic not mumsy there are nuns out there with more ,sexual experience than me its embarrassing drop me to brush my teeth i love how nancy ,makes you brush your teeth because she doesnt like the smell of mars bars ,i cant be in the same room as my boyfriend when hes eating fish balls i honestly have a tantrum ,when i see them in the fridge do you guys have any icks oh thats such a you i think maybe you ,know you shouldnt really be with someone who eats fish balls thank you can you please tell him that ,he could give fish balls fish balls fish balls from the deli okay okay because i dont like ,them but well my husband likes some you know pickled herrings literally cant cope theyre ,in the fridge big reaction yeah dont like that what about you um i dont really have any smells,icky i mean apart from the obvious ones hey bad breath oh yeah i cant cope with that at all ,thats hard you know but i even that i dont know yeah no no particular food types that i ,can think of no i think im quite intolerant yeah well go through that later i think that ,the way somebody smells is so important when you get a compliment saying that you smell good its ,the best coffee compliment isnt it its true no i simply dont understand why ,youre doing this this to save up for our college oh how wonderful are you really no ,leo grande is really a persona and he lies about what he does for a living and everything ,have you guys ever lied on a cv when you were younger to try and get a job im sort of horribly ,honest its a great way really well no not really i wish i had a really good story about yeah once i ,really lied i feel like if i was a really cool person and iconic as you said not mumsy ,um i but im about to be so mumsy because i just totally would have i would have loved to be able ,to say yeah i can drive im very very good with a maserati um i could do like three point you know ,wheelies and everything and i can ride horses and then actually done it and had a horrible accident ,because i got it wrong if i were a really cool person i would have that answer but no ,im really like not cool so i havent really ever much lied
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The Strange Intimacy Of Emma Thompsons New Film, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: WELCOME BACK,,EVERYBODY.,THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.,FOLKS, MY FIRST GUEST IS A TWO-TIME ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING,ACTRESS YOU KNOW FROM “LOVE ACTUALLY,” “HOWARDS END,” AND,”SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.”,SHE NOW STARS IN “GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE.”,>> CHEERS.,♪ ♪ ♪ SO I HAVE MADE A LIST OF THINGS,THAT ID LIKE TO GET THROUGH.,>> OH, THAT SOUNDS SEXY.,>> DONT MOCK ME.,IM A TEACHER.,OLD HABITS DIE HARD.,>> WHATS FIRST ON THE LIST?,( CLEARS THROAT ) NUMBER ONE, I PERFORM ORAL SEX,ON YOU.,NUMBER TWO, YOU PERFORM ORAL SEX ON ME.,NUMBER THREE, WE DO A 69, IF THATS WHAT ITS STILL CALLED.,I DONT BE.,FOUR, ME ON TOP.,FIVE, DOGGY STYLE.,>> THAT ALL SOUND VERY ACHIEVABLE.,>> OH, DOES IT?,OH, GOOD, GOOD.,BECAUSE I HAVE NO FRAME OF REFERENCE.,IVE TRIED LOOKING ON THE INTERNET, BUT ITS ALARMING,,FRANKLY.,IF YOU TYPE CLASSY PORN IN GOOGLE, THERE ARE 12 WINDOWS.,HAVE I BOOKED ENOUGH TIME?,>> Stephen: PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO “THE LATE SHOW,” EMMA,THOMPSON!, ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ♪ ♪ ♪,♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: GOOD!,♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: GOOD!, ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> OH!,>> Stephen: YOU STILL GOT IT, KID.,>> ITS SO NICE TO BE BACK!,>> Stephen: LOVELY TO HAVE YOU BACK.,>> OH, MY GOODNESS!,ALL THESE YEARS WEVE BEEN SEPARATED!,>> Stephen: YOU ARE A RAY OF SUNSHINE– QUITE LITERALLY.,I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT.,>> OR A LONG STREAK OF PISS.,THATS THE OTHER THING YOU COULD, UNFORTUNATELY.,>> Stephen: SURE.,>> BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD QUALITY, WOULDNT IT?,>> Stephen: YES.,>> I WANT TO BE IN VERY GOOD HEALTH.,IM EXHAUSTED.,>> Stephen: I WANT– I WANT TO GET STRAIGHT INTO TALKING ABOUT,THIS MOVIE, “GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE,” BECAUSE ITS A,BEAUTIFUL MOVIE AND SO UNIQUE.,ITS REALLY FUNNY.,ITS INCREDIBLY– ITS HEARTBREAKING AT TIMES.,ITS HOPEFUL IN MANY WAYS.,AND IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.,I DONT THINK ANYBODY ELSE HAS, EITHER.,FOR THE PEOPLE OUT THERE– OBVIOUSLY, I SAW IT LAST NIGHT.,TELL THE FOLKS WHAT ITS ABOUT IN WHERE YOU ARE OWN WORDS,,MADAM.,>> ITS ABOUT A RETIRED RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHER,CALLED NANCY STOKES, WHO IS MY AGE, EARLY 60s., ( LAUGHTER ) WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?,I AM.,THATS MY AGE.,ANYWAY, AND ITS HERS, AND SHE HAS HAD A RUDIMENTARY SEX LIFE,UP UNTIL — >> Stephen: SHES A WIDOW AT,THIS POINT.,>> SHES A WIDOW, HAS BEEN WIDOWED FOR TWO YEARS.,AND SHE HAS TAKEN HER LIFE INTO HER HANDS AND HIRED A VERY MUCH,YOUNGER SEX WORKER, MALE SEX WORKER, TO HELP HER SORT OF GO–,REDISCOVER SOMETHING THAT SHES NEVER REALLY HAD.,>> Stephen: YOU SEE SORT OF THIS RELATIONSHIP, SUCH AS IT,IS, DEVELOPING BETWEEN YOUR CHARACTER AND THIS SEX WORKER,,WHO IS PLAYED BY A WONDERFUL YOUNG ACTOR.,TELL ME HIS NAME AGAIN?,>> DARYL McCORMACK.,HE WAS DISCOVERED REALLY, FOR THIS.,HE HADNT DONE MUCH BEFORE.,BUT HE WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY PERFECT BECAUSE HES SO,THOUGHTFUL.,AND THIS YOUNG MAN, LEO, IS A FORM OF OF MAN THAT I HAVE NEVER,SEEN ON SCREEN.,HES– HE IS A– WHAT HE DOES IS SEX WORK, BUT ITS SORT OF LIKE,CARE WORK IN A WAY.,HE UNDERSTANDS.,HE SAYS, “EVERYONE NEEDS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND IF WE,CAN DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE CANT ACCESS SEXUAL,PLEASURE CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH LESS ( BLEEP ) THERE WILL,BE IN THE WORLD.”,HE TELLS HER A LOT, HE TEACHERS A LOT– BECAUSE SHES GOT A LOT,OF ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT HIM AND ABOUT IT ALL.,AND SO SLOWLY, THEY PEEL AWAY EACH OTHERS… DEFENSES,,ACTUALLY, AND THEN IN THE END, THEYRE EACH OTHERS CLONES.,BUT ITS NOT ROMANTIC.,ITS NOT A ROMANTIC STORY, AND THATS WHAT I THINK IS RADICAL,ABOUT IT.,BECAUSE ITS A REAL– ITS A REALLY INTIMATE FILM, YOU KNOW,,BECAUSE THEY GET REALLY DEEP INTO ONE ANOTHER THROUGH THE,TALKING.,>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK, BUT WHEN WE COME,BACK, I WILL ASK EMMA WHERE SHE KEEPS HER OSCARS.,ITS NOT WHERE YOU THINK.,STICK AROUND.,♪ ♪ ♪ ( APPLAUSE )
Emma Thompson on What Drew Her to Role in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Part 1 | The View
peace welcome emma thompson,that is some hot stuff emma oh,oh girl no daryl mccormack the young man,playing leo hes just one of the nicest,yeah most wonderful young actors you,could ever come across hes just,an amazing sort of crea creature really,its like a unicorn i mean its just,extra hes wonderful and so cute,indeed that too yeah,well you need that in order notice me,not objectifying him ladies no but hes,hes got that je ne sais quoi yeah which,makes you want charisma and hes because,he did yeah,well or nancy nancy did yeah,panic panic,anyway,so lovely to see you yes thank you,so you know emma were celebrating our,25th see were here 25 years this show,which is pretty good i guess but um,yes and the 25 years is pretty good its,pretty good yeah its a good job yeah to,have a job and to be on the air that,long but were dipping into our archives,because you have been here a few times,which have always been lovely and uh in,1998 you were here for the a winter,guest with your mother wasnt your,mother and that i remember that yes,indeed alan rickman got dressed him he,directed it and i interviewed you is,just the two of us yeah and uh i talked,to you about your brief career as a,stand-up comedian shall we see the clip,let me ask you about your career as a,stand-up comedian how did you make the,transition from standing in front of,people really doing that to being a,shakespearean actress to being such a,wonderful great actress that you you do,a lot of interesting work transition,isnt really the word for,the,hideous,and,life-threatening fear,that stand up,produces,so transition is not the word more,running screaming,in the opposite direction,yeah yeah its really so true,you know,there was one moment i mean ive stopped,doing it because i cant take the,anxiety its very tough that job yeah oh,my goodness i really did i was i was,doing a benefit concert for the miners,in 1984. and i remember feeling my,heart going so fast i thought you know,what i actually think im going to have,a heart attack wow yeah yes but i earned,60 pounds on my 25th birthday doing,stand up and it was the best money i,ever earned you know because its just,you with a microphone in the audience,and you you think or you swim yeah you,know and thats kind of great i always,say im so glad i dont have youre,honest thank you thank you god but i,always thought of it as im on stage,naked and everybody else is dressed yeah,its very exposing yeah because theres,no character between you and the,audience its just you and if they hate,you they hate you thats right,no,exactly theres no character to hide,behind,so emma your new film good luck leo,grant was a sundance favorite this year,and you star alongside the um were not,going to objectify him very gorgeous,daryl mccormick and the two of you,reveal,practically every emotion in the game,yeah so tell everyone what this movies,about and what a story like this means,to you now,so its about the sex religious,education teacher whos been widowed for,two years my age early 60s who has had a,very rudimentary sex life kind of sad um,um but knows that theres something,serious missing and shes taken this,radical kind of revolutionary step to,cross every boundary known to her and,anyone and hire a sex worker even though,shes very aware of the sort of ethics,and morals around it and shes full of,fear and trepidation but she knows that,shes just got to do something,shes got to do it and um why i love it,so much is because this character is,normally the one who is next to the,person doing something interesting yeah,theyre the mother or the the wife or,the you know theyre the person not who,the story is not very much not about the,person who is supporting the person who,is the story is about which is mostly,well its certainly when we were growing,up,so um thats why this incredible writer,katie brand sent this thing to me and i,said this is something ive never seen,ive never seen a woman do this ive,never seen these two people in a room,ive never seen a man like this a young,man whos so,um well rounded hes so kind and,compassionate and understanding and,mature yeah and he teaches her so much,but in return she also as you find out,because they sort of they peel each,other like onions you know until in the,end theres nothing to lose but theyre,clothes and thats you know a kind of,gift at the end yeah i like that its,nothing to lose but theyre close right,i mean,its fascinating you know im im this,you know repressed catholic girl and i,decided somehow that i would watch it,with my father last night no,i had i didnt know what the movie was,what a fantastic thing to twelve i guess,yeah i guess um,but um it was an interesting experience,midway through i said dad i think im,gonna watch it upstairs so he was like,really i said yeah i think im gonna,gonna go and watch it upstairs but,because i was,the repressed catholic girl,yeah but it was im a catholic girl two,not two very not too repetitive,[Applause],were gonna take a break and then were,gonna come back well try to remember,the question,[Applause]
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Movie Review
good evening with the oscar expert here,with brother rowe at the sundance film,festival and its time for a review of,good luck to you leo grand the film was,written by katie brand and directed by,sophie hyde and it stars academy award,winner emma thompson the films about a,woman who two years after her husband,passed decides to hire a sex worker to,try things that shes never experienced,and emma thompsons character is like,the last person that youd ever expect,to hire a sex worker and thats what,makes the movie fun shes pretty prudish,and very shy about sex in general and,has never been adventurous before in her,life and that relates to sex but i also,think it relates to her level of comfort,with herself in general and so i think,no matter if youre really reserved when,it comes to that stuff or whether youre,very adventurous this movie can meet you,kind of like where youre at because,its about those two sides sort of,coming together yeah the movies almost,like a play its a lot of dialogue its,pretty much in one location and you get,a lot of these characters getting to,know each other and daryl mccormicks,character you know hes got something to,open up about as well and we get to know,him a little bit better as the movie,goes on the two characters have a very,unlikely charming chemistry together,its also a pretty funny movie itll,definitely have an easy time making you,chuckle a lot of the movie is a showcase,for the writing and the acting i mean,the dialogue really pops here its,always fresh you know the characters are,always finding something new to talk,about something new to explore i think,the movie also visually does a good job,keeping things fresh with the blocking,and the camera movements because each,little moment has a different feel to it,despite being in the same place emma,thompsons pretty perfect here she,really elevates each line of dialogue,she makes it really funny we really buy,this characters nerves and the push and,pull of her inner conscience the film,threatens to play it a little too safe,and i thought for the first two acts,that it was playing it too safe and that,youd get really close with the,characters but then you wouldnt,actually witness a lot of the real,physical intimacy but the film is about,physical intimacy but without giving,anything away the ending changed my mind,about that i think it absolutely needed,to go there and im glad that it did,its easy to see how different people,can come away with different takeaways,from this movie and it might even be a,movie that makes you come out wanting to,try something new and give your life a,little bit of spice not even necessarily,you know in the bedroom just just in,general perhaps i think this movie has,the power to give people a little bit of,a change of perspective even if its,just very slight daryl mccormick did a,pretty perfect job portraying the sex,worker i completely bought him as,someone whos very very comfortable with,himself in contrast to emma thompson and,he holds his own against emma thompson,in the later scenes when the tables turn,and hes the one whos opening up more,one complaint i have here is that,theres some really really didactic,exchanges about sex work that is just,the writers explicitly like stating what,kind of attitude they think society,should have about sex work and also like,what legislatively people should do,about it it was so on the nose it felt,like we were being talked to and,preached too i think they could have,trusted people to come away from the,movie and like get where this movie,might stand on that stuff its not much,of a leap to make it did somewhat do a,good job of bringing it up organically,where i could have i bought that the,characters would have talked about it,like that but i get what youre saying,like like i see a movie kind of like,telling you you know the call to action,part of itself yeah its like in a movie,if the character said hey you know and,maybe it would be better if we all just,did the x y and z theyre almost,breaking the fourth wall when they do it,thats kind of why it was weird to me,that being said though if you dont,agree with the movies message about,like sex work and like and all that,before going in like youre gonna agree,with the movie afterwards so i think it,could change peoples minds about that,its very very palatable you know the,movie did everything i kind of wanted it,to do it didnt really do anything i i,guess i didnt expect it to so maybe i,wasnt blown away by the movie this is a,really enjoyable charming movie with a,great message for anybody and i would,give it an 8 out of 10. pretty easy,movie to recommend to all i would go,with a 7.5 on this one thank you for,watching thank you for subscribing can,you wish leo grant some good luck,[Music],okay
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT**