Mental Health

Emma Thompson Faces Her Body Image Issues

IT’S NOT THE LOOK OF HER FACE, IT’S THE LOOK ON HER FACE –

June 9, 2022 – Beloved actress Emma Thompson has opened up about facing her body image struggles through her latest role in the upcoming film, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.

The veteran actress, 63, plays widower Nancy, who after years of marriage to the same man, meets a male escort on her journey looking for connection, fun and self-discovery.  “When I’m looking in the mirror, I’m always trying to make myself look ‘better’ – turning this way or that, checking out my a**e, pulling something in. Simply revealing my utter incapacity to accept my body as it is,” she said.

“But in the movie, at that point, Nancy’s body has just given her these seconds of pure pleasure and she is marvelling at it – not ‘it’ as it looks, but ‘it’ as it has become to her. A place she can be happy. A place she can find genuine bliss.”

In the honest interview, Thompson said she’d “never really been offered sex scenes” so the role was a shift in her usual casting.

“She’s [Nancy] someone who has been widowed and it looking back at her life and thinking, ‘I’m not sure that I’ve ever experienced that essential part of my life’, or sexual pleasure of any kind,” Thomson said.

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Leonard Buschel

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