Emma Thompson reveals how she prepared for her NUDE scene in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

When Netflix dropped the cast of season two of Love is Blind, there were four extra people in there.

In October, a horrific tragedy occurred in New Mexico on the set of "Rust" – cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after a gun that actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged and a live projectile fatally hit the rising star. With an investigation still underway, lawsuits mounting and questions unanswered, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies is speaking out.  In an interview with Vanity Fair, which describes the tragic incident as "an event cascade" with "each incident contributing to the moment that claimed [Hutchins's] life," Carmack-Altwies "already sees that Hutchins's death was caused not by a single action but by numerous failures and mistakes." Here's a look at those factors, according to Vanity Fair, which notes that the former public defender has yet to file charges "and won't know for several more months if she will."' In October, a horrific tragedy occurred on the set of "Rust" – cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after a gun actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged and a live projectile fatally hit the rising star.

Sergio Aguero has revealed he could bet set for a role with Argentina at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.The Manchester City legend has endured a difficult few months after calling time on his illustrious career back in December.Aguero was diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia while playing for his new club, Barcelona, earlier this season, which forced him to hang up his boots prematurely.But now City's all-time leading scorer is bidding to put the agony of retirement behind him by playing a crucial role for his country at the upcoming World Cup."I am going to the World Cup," Aguero revealed to Radio10. "This week we are going to have a meeting.

A new service linked to seven secondary schools in North Ayrshire will help parents, carers and pupils deal with financial matters.

Apprentice star Sophie Wilding has blasted the greasy spoon cafe they visit in the show because it doesn’t serve oat lattes.Every week, Lord Sugar sends the losing team off to discuss why they flopped his task.The gang end up in the same cafe in London every week where they drink tea and coffee and bicker over who they think should be fired.However cocktail bar boss Sophie, who was fired on Thursday’s BBC One show, was not impressed by the cafe and its menu.She whinged: “I couldn’t get an oat latte there. They didn’t have coconut milk.

Kye Whyte has gained a reputation for being a 'flirt' on the set of Dancing on Ice, according to a show source.The 22-year-old Olympic BMX athlete reportedly has the hots for Sheffield-born professional skater Morgan Swales — and doesn't seem to mind that she already has a boyfriend.Morgan, also 22, has been dating Sheffield Steelers ice hockey player Cole Shudra for six years.A backstage source says this hasn't stopped the Peckham lad trying though, telling The Sun: "Kye is so funny backstage and loves to flirt with all the women."But the poor lad has his eyes set on the one girl he can’t have."Morgan is gorgeous so you can’t blame him for trying. But when she posted a loving Instagram message to Cole on Valentine’s Day, it was clear she was not interested in Kye’s efforts."Kye entered Dancing On Ice last year only months after he won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for BMX racing.The Daily Star has approached Kye's representatives for comment.

Tiffany Haddish was all smiles as she participated in the NBA All-Star Game weekend festivities on Friday.Before hitting the court with a slew of other Hollywood heavyweights, the 42-year-old comedienne struck a pose on the red carpet in astylish gray and white Jordan tracksuit.She completed the athletic getup with a pair of black and white sneakers and some gold hoop earrings. Beaming: Tiffany Haddish was all smiles as she participated in the NBA All-Star Game weekend festivities on FridayShe was still rocking a bleach blonde pixie cut, which was styled in chic finger waves for the event.After her red carpet moment, Haddish traded in her tracksuit for a jersey and shorts to play in the NBAAll-Star Celebrity Game, an annual game featuring a number of stars who show off their basketball skills.

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has closed a deal around $7.5 million for U.S. rights to Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. the Sophie Hyde-directed film that stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (The Wheel of Time & Peaky Blinders). Deadline reported yesterday  that Searchlight was poised to win the film that was bid on by several distributors, and the plan is to wage an awards season campaign for Thompson in a standout turn. Searchlight will release through Hulu, in a deal similar to the preemptive one it made for another Sundance film, Fresh. Hyde directed 52 Tuesdays and Animals. The film is scripted by Katy Brand, whose credits include Nanny McPhee Returns, which starred Thompson, and Walking On Sunshine.

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has emerged as the favorite to acquire Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, the Sophie Hyde-directed drama that stars Emma Thompson as a widow who decides to seek out something that has eluded her over a 31-year marriage: a proper, mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasm. Negotiations are underway and will hopefully climax into the first narrative film deal at 2022 Sundance, after a weekend of foreplay but no consummation beyond the docu Fire of Love.

Emma Thompson finds the fad around cosmetic surgery in Hollywood very odd.

Emma Thompson is baring it all in her new film, . Thompson spoke about going nude for her role in the film at the movie's Sundance Film Festival premiere on Saturday.«It's very challenging to be nude at 62,» Thompson said during a Cinema Café discussion, before revealing that her character completely disrobes in one scene.

Stripping down in her sixties. Emma Thompson got real about embracing nude scenes for her new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. 

told Entertainment Weekly.“I don’t think I could’ve done it before the age that I am,” Thompson said of a scene that sees her drop her bath robe in front of a mirror to reveal her full form. “And yet, of course, the age that I am makes it extremely challenging because we aren’t used to seeing untreated bodies on the screen.”“Nothing has changed in the dreadful demands made upon women in the real world but also in acting,” she added.

Celebrated actress Emma Thompson is starring in the film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, which sees a woman hire a male prostitute in the hopes of having an orgasm for the very first time.The film, which also features Peaky Blinders star Daryl McCormack, had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival over the weekend.Emma, 62, revealed that both herself and Daryl rehearsed their nude scene in the buff, while director Sophie Hyde also disrobed in way of support for her actors. “Sophie, Daryl, and I rehearsed entirely nude and talked about our bodies, talked about our relationship with our bodies, drew them, discussed the things that we find difficult about, things we like about them, described one another's bodies,” Emma explained in a Cinema Cafe conversation at Sundance.“It's very challenging to be nude at 62.She stands in front of a mirror alone and she drops her robe,” she said of her character, Nancy Stokes. The film follows widowed school teacher Nancy, who hires male prostitute ‘Leo Grande’ (Daryl) in an attempt to finally achieve her first orgasm. In her interview with Entertainment Weekly, she continued: “Nothing has changed in the dreadful demands made upon women in the real-world world but also in acting.“This thing of having to be thin is still the same as it ever was, and actually in some ways I think it's worse now.The star went on to admit: “The age that I am makes it extremely challenging because we aren't used to seeing untreated bodies on the screen.”Emma also reminisced about the time she spent getting comfortable with her co-star by going on walks around the muddy banks of Hampstead Heath, London.“That was very important that we could hold onto each other and laugh.

Emma Thompson is opening up about going nude in her new movie.

Emma Thompson is baring it all in her latest film. 

The complexities of female sexuality are still frustratingly misrepresented in mainstream cinema. In one corner, we have the eruptive rise of a certain type of one-dimensional badass feminism, featuring often straight, go-getting women who can win a fistfight, have it their way and enjoy great, consequence-free sex.

Even in its truncated virtual Covid-afflicted form last year, the Sundance Film Festival was remarkably able to debut several movies that a year later we are still talking about in the Oscar conversation including CODA, Jockey, Passing, Flee, and Mass. Maybe this success was due to the fact they all had one word titles, but more realistically it was because despite all the drawbacks, the fest honchos picked very well and now awards voters are enjoying the riches.  As I have been seeing one film after another in this year’s (virtual) fest I find myself looking for that breakout movie or performance which with the right distribution we will be talking about still a year from now. There have been some promising performances so far from the likes of Julianne Moore, Bill Nighy and a couple still to come later, but the wow factor really hit me in seeing Emma Thompson in the British film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, premiering today at Sundance, where to put it mildly, she knocks it out of the park. This is Thompson at her best, a witty, dazzling. and above all brave performance that will undoubtedly be talked about. Her co-star Daryl McCormack  in this two-hander is equally good in the movie which centers on a 60ish widowed mother of two and religious studies teacher who hires a sex worker for a tryst in a hotel room. It is much more complicated than that, in this story of two disparate souls who come together, one full of anxiety and past regrets, the other professional to his core but with a guard he will not let down and a line he will not cross.

Amy Nicholson In the opening sequence of Sophie Hyde’s riveting “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a suave young man (Daryl McCormack) steps out of an ice cream parlor, catches a mint candy in his mouth, and swings around a street pole like a hipster Gene Kelly. The Irishman is confidently cool — and not quite himself. He’s getting into character as Leo Grande, a charming sex worker who sells the Leo Grande Fantasy: a “service,” he calls it, where he gives paying customers exactly what they need, be it physical release, conversation or, for one client, dressing like a cat.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorOn the surface, a film set primarily in one hotel room with a pair of actors might seem simple. But in the case of “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” which premieres Jan. 22 at the Sundance Film Festival, limiting the location gave the film an opportunity to explore what star Emma Thompson calls “the emotional landscape.”Thompson plays Nancy, a widow and former teacher who has stepped outside her comfort zone for the first time in her life and hired a sex worker, the titular Leo Grande, played by “Peaky Blinders” actor Daryl McCormack.

ITV this morning as she opens up about her career to Alan Titchmarsh.The star is also likely to mention her famous sister Emma Thompson.The actress has previously opened up about the “rivalry” between her and Emma.Sophie is a star who many will recognise from Four Weddings and a Funeral as well as EastEnders.However, some may not be aware that the actress is also the younger sister of Sense and Sensibility star Emma.The pair are children of actors Phyllida Law and Eric Thompson.Sophie is an Olivier Award-winning actress who has starred in West End shows like Company and Into The Woods.As well as this, many may recognise her from Persuasion, Emma and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.She also starred as Stella Crawford in EastEnders from 2006 until 2007.Despite treading a different career to her Oscar-winning sister Emma, she once maintained there was no rivalry between them.Chatting to the Daily Mail back in September 2009, she denied any claim of this.She said: “People assume there is this rivalry, but there isn't.“It wouldn't occur to me to compare myself to her, nor her to me.”The actress also admitted to the publication how she and her sister are close.She explained: “We are tough old birds, I do feel that there is a lot of Ma in both of us.“She grew up on the fringes of the war and was evacuated as a child.“I can't even bear to think about that - of her as a scared little girl - but it did something to our family.“We're all fighters, I guess.”Speaking to the Metro back in March, Sophie also admitted the pair don’t speak about acting much.She was quizzed on this, as the star admitted: “Oh, people have such funny ideas about actors.“We don’t really talk about work, more the things we’ve seen.“Emma’s been