Emma Thompson

The Oscar winner is starring as Miss Trunchbull in the Netflix musical adaption of Roald Dahl's 1988 book.

“Matilda Wormwood, criminals like you need a real lesson,” Trunchbull huffs and puffs. “Matilda: The Musical” is set to drop Dec. 2 on Netflix and in theaters in the United Kingdom. Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough are playing Matilda’s inattentive parents who neglect her daily.

Netflix revealed a trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, and Emma Thompson is seen taking on the role of the evil Miss ...

The upcoming Matilda rework isn’t the only Roald Dahl novel slated for another movie adaptation, either, as a Willy Wonka prequel film is also on its way next year. ROALD DAHL'S— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) MATILDATHE MUSICAL comes to Netflix this December. pic.twitter.com/Rw6jd2WRQc June 15, 2022 Today, Netflix dropped a new trailer for its upcoming film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, and there’s a new Miss Trunchbull in town.

In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Emma Thompson plays a widow yearning to fulfill a desire that's somehow eluded her her entire life: an orgasm.

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Alisha Weir plays the title role and Lashana Lynch is Miss Honey in the upcoming Netflix movie Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, costarring Emma Thompson.

Dahl's Matilda was published in 1988. He added, "Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company share a deep love of storytelling and a growing, global fan base." Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results."

Daryl McCormack co-stars as an escort hired by an older woman in Sophie Hyde's frank and funny film.

Daryl McCormack recalls how he and Emma Thompson prepared for the sex scenes in their new indie "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande."

She said, “Of course, love, it’s under the stairs.” And then amongst that were two Oscars, just sitting on the toilet. “I said to my therapist many months ago that I really want to grow in terms of my career and person and responsibility. And then it dawned on me — there’s no one else really in this film, apart from Leo and Nancy. There were two scenes I had to put on tape. Yes. She was in the front garden, and I was like, “Emma, I’m so sorry, but before we go, can I use your loo?” Because I really needed to use the bathroom. “And she said, ‘Oh?’ But then I said, ‘But it’s with Emma Thompson — you know, ‘Love Actually.’” “I remember at one point the three of us standing butt naked in the room, and Emma just went, ‘I feel we’re all being held by something bigger here.

New York (AP) -- The summer movie season has not, traditionally speaking, been known for its nuanced attention to female sexuality.

Known for her long career of acting prowess, Emma Thompson now appears to have proven herself once again. Netflix's first teaser trailer for the upcoming ...

As Netflix now introduces Dahl’s stories to a new generation, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said in September, “We’re committed to maintaining their unique spirit and their universal themes of surprise and kindness, while also sprinkling some fresh magic into the mix.” The movie is a screen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical and the next in a long list of Netflix projects after they acquired the rights to Dahl’s work last year. Lashana Lynch will play Matilda’s sweet teacher, Miss Honey, whose kindness saves Matilda from the wrath of Trunchbull and her family.

Based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, "Matilda" stars Lashana Lynch, Emma Thompson, and Alisha Weir, out this December.

The story is based on Dahl’s 1988 novel of the same name. Per the official logline, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” is an inspirational musical tale of an extraordinary girl who discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. The film will debut this holiday season on Netflix. Sony Pictures UK and TriStar Pictures will exclusively release the film in cinemas in the UK and Ireland December 2.

The summer movie season has not, traditionally speaking, been known for its nuanced attention to female sexuality. ByJake Coyle Ap Film Writer.

A completely innocent position,” says Thompson. “I’m not moving my body about to make it look better or more like the thing I think it ought to look like. She penned Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” and a pair of “Nanny McPhee” films. “I thought: That’s the position I’d like to stand in. Though “Leo Grande” was shot quickly in just 19 days, the actors rehearsed beforehand, including some time spent acting nude. The process of making the movie unfolded for Thompson and McCormack as an unusually deep experience of connection and unburdening. I think she was finishing up some gardening,” said McCormack. “I just remember her seeing me and being so cordial and welcoming. When McCormack was potentially up for the part, the 29-year-old Irish actor best known from “Peaky Blinders” went to meet Thompson at her home in London. They spent two hours talking on a park bench. “She was out on the front door step talking to one of her neighbors. Thompson has, she says, been thinking about the issues behind “Leo Grande” for years and years. It’s been made somewhat taboo, and at the same time, it’s been industrialized and sold to us like Spam in a tin,” says Thompson. “I was talking about the pleasure centers in the brain, in the body and in the heart. “I’ve always trusted physical pleasure, as long as it felt right in the emotional centers of the body. “It’s like a little atom bomb,” said Thompson, speaking by Zoom from Scotland in an interview earlier this spring.

Oscar-winner Emma Thompson plays a sexually frustrated widow in 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,' streaming June 17 on Hulu.

At that juncture, "Good Luck” reveals itself to be not just an exchange of bodily fluids, but an exchange of ideas offering insights into the power of intimacy and human connection. And when it somewhat ploddingly gets there, I can guarantee you’ll be moved by what Nancy and Leo learn about themselves and the errancy of the sheltered lives they’ve led. She’s delightfully cynical in her delivery, yet subtle enough to allow sufficient room for us to sympathize with a woman who has most assuredly never “had it all.” And as Nancy spills, Leo evolves as every woman’s dream: a man who listens. To hear her tell it, it’s almost an act of God that she has two adult children: a son majoring in chemistry, whom she labels “boring”; and a marginally debauched daughter living in an artist colony in Barcelona. Worse, Nancy claims to have never experienced an orgasm. Of the two, Thompson’s Nancy is by far the most repressed. And if, in the end, escort and client do more talking than doing, so be it.

Daryl McCormack co-stars as a sex worker hired by a repressed 60-something woman who hopes to experience a late-in-life sexual awakening.

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for the upcoming Matilda, and fans can't get over just how different Emma Thompson looks as the devious Miss ...

Emma Thompson shines as a repressed widow who hires a male escort to give her an orgasm.

All this risk-taking and spilling of secrets requires space, and Hyde gives it to them by staying out of the way. The Peaky Blinders vet oozes a velvety and unironic sincerity when Leo is providing the full boyfriend experience. “Do you enjoy it?” “Do you feel demeaned?” “Have you been doing this long?” Leo has faced this line of interrogation before, when the unstoppable force of his charm meets the immovable object of a client’s anxiety. Nancy is a 55-year-old widow awaiting the arrival of a sex worker who’ll hopefully give her the first orgasm of her entire life. Emma Thompson is at her prickly, vulnerable, fiercely intelligent best as Nancy, a stand-in for every woman who’s suppressed her sexuality out of shame, feelings of inadequacy or a need to please others. The male escort assigned to this monumental task is the “aesthetically perfect” young Leo (Daryl McCormack) and, as he’ll learn over the course of their four meetings, giving Nancy a chance to premiere her O-face means breaking down her well-established defenses.

In the newly-released trailer for 'Matilda the Musical' on Netflix, Emma Thompson is totally unrecognizable as Trunchbull.

Lashana Lynch plays the beloved teacher Miss Honey. The trailer itself is set to the musical’s best-known song, “Revolting Children,” as the audience waits in anticipation to see Miss Trunchbull herself. The musical was adapted from Roald Dahl's 1988 children's book, not unlike the absolutely brilliant 1996 movie adaptation starring Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, and Rhea Pearlman. Matilda is a girl born to two pretty terrible, negligent parents who have no idea how amazing their intelligent, magical daughter is.

Since the Matilda musical took stages by storm starting in 2010, it was only a matter of time before the tuneful adaptation of Roald Dahl's work became a ...

Filled with an overwhelming sense of justice, Matilda dares to take a stand for what is right and teach Trunchbull a lesson she won’t forget. On meeting her inspirational teacher, Miss Honey (Lynch), Matilda is encouraged and begins conjuring her own fantastical tales. And with Netflix signing a big deal with the Dahl estate, the streaming service is the home for that movie version.

A two-hander dramedy about sex and aging is a terrific vehicle for the venerable star.

The politics of the movie are a little tricky, to be sure. The sex is her reward for that effort, not really the audience’s. We’re invited in, but only to see what kind of release and freedom may await us should we try to attend to our own unrealized passions. There is nudity and sex—of the sort that we’d maybe once have patronizingly called brave—but it is held, stylistically and smartly, for a crucial moment late in the film. Surely there are struggles in the work, and a sad enough backstory for Leo is eventually revealed. Nancy (not her real name) has hired Leo (not his, either) because her husband has died and she is trying to make up for lost time. But in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Hulu, June 17) the gag is more softly stated.