Emma Thompson is a hideous old has-been. Audrey Hepburn will be remembered long after Emma's been forgotten.

At the end of the day Audrey is an icon who's memory will live on and be beloved forever. She is a admired actress,fashion icon, humanatarian,etc. Emma IS a good actress but she's hardly the greatest in the world.Helen Mirren,Judi Dench,Glenn Close and numerous others are every bit as good as Emma if not better. I doubt that Emma will ever be as beloved as Audrey. I think she could have safely said "I didn't really care for Audrey Hepburn as an actress" and no one would have been offended but she ad to go and completely diminish everything about Audrey and that is offensive and classeless for a well-known actress to do

Personally, I find some of the worst acting in those British/Merchant Ivory/Sense & Sensibility/period dramas.
Soyou're basically saying you wouldn't have seen it in the firs5b4t place, so your point of not seeing the movie is moot.
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In 2003, Emma and her husband informally adopted a 16-year-old Rwandan refugee named Tindyebwa Agaba. They successfully resisted his deportation back to Rwanda, his family having been killed in the genocide. Emma and her husband took him that Christmas, and he has stayed with them all this time, before going on to college. They paid for all his education (he just graduated from Exeter), and he is now working on his masters degree at I believe Oxford.
She adopted him quite quietly, with no fanfare, unlike the Angelinas and Madonnas (two no-talents) of the world, who miraculously have cameras following them everytime they pick up a child that they didn't give birth to.
Oh yes, and she has won awards and been recognized several times over for her work on denouncing and increasing awareness of the horrors of human trafficking. She's been doing this work for several years now, in fact, and created an art/education project consisting of seven silos depicting the process of how people (mostly young women) are trafficked around the world. This art installation has traveled throughout Europe as well as parts of the United States, beginning in New York.
She is also a patron of the Refugee Council and the Tim Parry Jonathon Ball Foundation for Peace.
She works to bring attention to the work of the Helen Bamber Foundation, an organization that offers therapeutic treatment to those traumatised by violence and abuse.
And you say:
"She is gawky and awkward. Her back side sticks out and it is huge. Whoever dressed her must not have liked her.
And apparently lacks any class. Hepburn besides being a film icon dedicated many years of her life to help starving children.what has Thompson done????"
Your comments clearly illustrate that you overflow in having all the facts, tact, sympathy, and charm.

Emma is most likely jealous because Audrey lit up the screen.
And Emma is huge!!!!!
Just did a post on this because of the Hepburn comments.
In "Last Chance Harvey" Emma walks down a long hallway in a black dress with the elegance of Michelle Obama.LOL.
She is gawky and awkward. Her back side sticks out and it is huge. Whoever dressed her must not have liked her.
And apparently lacks any class. Hepburn besides being a film icon dedicated many years of her life to help starving children.what has Thompson done????

I agree and just decided not to see the new Nanny McPhee movie! Everyone has different tastes. Personally, I find some of the worst acting in those British/Merchant Ivory/Sense & Sensibility/period dramas. I guess it's a British thing soooo bland! (though I love British comedy!)

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phantonmfan47, you're a complete idiot. "Emma is fat and homely. Audrey Hepburn was "slim" and "beautiful".
Sorry, she was charming, but hardly beautiful. You call her "slim"? I wonder what you call emaciated then. She had the "figure" of a ten-year-old boy. Guys who love 80-pound women are usually found to be latent homosexuals. (chew on thatI'm just waiting for your dumb retort).
"Emma's bland in all her performances.".Another dumb remark.

Emma Thompson just proved that she lacks the elegance and class that Audrey Hepburn possessed. Audrey was slim and beautiful while Emma is fat and homely. Audrey was a far better actress and humanitarian than Emma ever will be. Emma's bland in all of her performances while Audrey glowed. Any respect I had for Emma disappeared with her tasteless, crass remarks!

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Audrey was a really great actress with a lot of class and charm.
This Emma wants to be in the publicity i guess with these kind of remarks.
I guess she never watched all of Audreys movies, otherwise you wouldnt say this stuff.

To Emma's defenders who want to downgrade Audrey's talents, she was pretty damn good in "The Nun's Story", "Wait Until Dark" and "Two for the Road", among others. And, talented though she may be, Emma would not have brought anywhere near the panache Audrey showed in "Sabrina", "Charade" or "Breakfast at Tiffany's" if she had played those roles. She can slam her in "My Fair Lady" if she wants, but it was a big error in judgement for her to debase her entire career and appeal. All she did was make herself look bad.

agreed. i thought she was completely rude. what an absolute b!tch.

Both Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood were far more talented than Audrey Hepburn. Have you ever seen "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"?

I thought Emma had more class.
Has she said anything about the negative response to her remarks?

And Emma puts her foot in her mouth again.
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Audrey was a movie star kind of like alot of our movie stars of today that cant really act, but we still love them. Hepburn really didnt even make many films but the ones she did make were hits. She was a true glamorous movie star and well loved for her humanitarian work and her hit classic films. Elizabeth Taylor wasnt that great either or Natalie Wood, but I loved them the most!!

Maybe she felt that Hepburn's performance was just so god awful in the film (which it was), that it slipped out. She rebounded by saying that she was sure that she was a completely fine human being (something to that effect), but just didn't think she was a good actress in THAT FILM. I don't think she was talking about her entire career, because she seemed to imply that she hadn't SEEN her other, or many of her other, films.
I think it's refreshing when someone in the acting community says something honest about members of their "club". Emma's honest, and correct, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

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I'll never understand why people feel the need to come to the defense of a long dead "legend".
It's one thing if you're a fan, but many take it personally when someone takes even a slightly critical slant toward their favorite actor.
It's the same hero-worshiping I see with other so-called "5b4icons"; James Dean, Elvis, John Wayne (and in the case of both Wayne and Hepburn, frankly, they were limited in their abilities i.e. not very good)
Certainly, they had presence, style and distinction - But I don't believe they were ever particularly talented thespians. I understand that's my opinion, but I doubt I'll ever be convinced of their
talent
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I'll concede to the fact that Thompson's comments were tactless and ill-worded But theres no need to call for the woman's head on a plate just because she badmouthed precious Audrey.
It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.

I agree! Thompson is an English twit and needs to be slapped.
Thompson could never equate the charm and appeal that Hepburn possessed. Maybe she's jealous of her.

Where does this snaggly wench get off trashing Audrey Hepburn's talent? What a useless creature she is.