Emma Thompson is criticizing what is commonplace in Hollywood — older male actors paired on-screen with women half their age.“It’s completely acceptable for George Clooney – who is delightful – to have someone who is 40 years younger than him or 30 years younger than him,” she said on the podcast CultureBlast. “If I have someone playing opposite me in a romantic way, they have to exhume someone, because I’m 61 now.
Do you see what I mean? It’s completely and utterly unbalanced.”Thompson turns that notion on its head in her upcoming film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, in which she plays a 55-year-old widow who hires a sex worker in his early 20s.“It’s very interesting with this woman I’m about to play,” she continued. “This young man says,
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