Emma Thompson says her looks have always ruled her out of glamorous Hollywood roles

mirror.co.uk:

She is one of Britain’s greatest film stars… but Emma Thompson has never hankered for a glam Hollywood role, saying her looks have always ruled her out of contention.

The 60-year-old double Oscar-winner, insists the “prescriptive and sexist” film industry steered her towards more character-led parts instead.

She said: “I’ve never been a Gwyneth Paltrow type. I didn’t ever fit the norms that are generally required to be a sexually castable person, if we are talking Hollywood, or even here. “The profoundly prescriptive and sexist responses to people’s shape and who they were… in a sense, I was out of that a bit because I have always been a character actor. “It felt like a relief – but if I was handed a script where it described the