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"I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee. Twee is whimsy without wit. It’s mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that’s not for me. She can’t sing and she can’t really act, I’m afraid. I’m sure she was a delightful woman – and perhaps if I had known her I would have enjoyed her acting more, but I don’t and I didn’t, so that’s all there is to it, really."
Although I'm not impressed with Audrey Hepburn either, I don't particularly like Emma Thompson. She always has her eyes wide open like some crazy woman and has a sort of annoying, condescending tone in her voice. She's also often horribly miscast, her role in Sense & Sensibility was just awful. What was she thinking, she even looks older than her own age!
shareShe wasn’t playing a 19 year old in s&s. Her character was written older in the script than in Austens novel.
And how old was Holly supposed to be in BaT? AH was in her 30s.
Hepburn looked in her late 20s in BaT, which is a suitable age for a high-class escort. Five years later she would have looked too old, but at that moment she was OK.
shareEmma Thompson was 36!!!
What does BaT have to do with this???
If that quote is corect then Emma Thompson is simply braindead. Audrey Hepburn was an amazing actress and made a lot of awesome movies.
shareI think I've confused Emma Thompson with Emma Watson and was about to say that her own idea of acting is being constantly hysterical and insecure. Apart of course from being created by Nature as a typical Brit cow camouflaging her cowness with huge amounts of fitness.
As to Audrey Hepburn, yeah, I remember hating her guts in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. A 30+ year-old hag imitating a 19 year-old girl who's not even a girl but her homosexual author's alter ego.
Emma Thompson is OK.
Audrey Hepburn at 31 equates to a hag? Right... Insecure and envious much...
shareEMMA!!!! I just did a movie-type double-take (but you are a very gifted actress.)
shareI can understand why Emma said that, and I'm sure she's not the only one who felt that way about Audrey. If you asked for some of the greatest actresses of all time, let's be honest Audrey wouldn't be on that list. If it was for greatest movie star's there ever was, she'd be up there as one of the greatest that's for sure.Her image at times outweigh's her acting.
Audrey could be seen as twee, but that's what made her a bankable star. She was all sweetness and light, nothing wrong with that. She wasn't ever going to trouble anyone like say Shirley MacLaine in the acting stakes, MacLaine could do sweetness and light as well as Audrey but she had the different shades to her more so then Audrey. Audrey had her own style and it worked for her.
I adore Emma and have often used her as an example of the sort of wide-ranging skills an actor ought to have... but she speaks from ignorance here. Yes, Hepburn spent a lot of her career being twee, but she was an excellent dramatic actress when she felt like stretching herself, and of course she was excellent at comedy.
Plus, I give her credit for finding better things to do than act, when she got too old for twee-ness. I respect someone with the courage to step out of the spotlight