I need a bait and eyeliner.

magpieandwhale:

Stay excellent, Emma Thompson:

If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you want to know? 

I wasn’t sure how to answer this one so I discussed it with my 12-year-old daughter. She suggested Plato. I was impressed. So Plato it is. I think I’d want to ask him how he’d imagine life had changed by 2012. 

Have you ever written to an author? Did he or she write back? 

I wrote to René Goscinny when I was 7 or 8, a fan letter about Asterix. He wrote back, saying that he was very proud to have made a little English girl laugh.

You’re organizing a literary dinner party and inviting three writers. Who’s on the list? 

Sappho, for a bit of ancient gender politics; Aphra Behn for theater gossip; and George Eliot because everyone who knew her said she was fascinating. All women, because they know how to get talking about the nitty-gritty so quickly and are less prone to telling anecdotes. I’d have gone for Jane Austen if I weren’t convinced she’d just have a soft-boiled egg and leave early.        

Definitely click through to see what books she’s got on her nightstand.

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theodoradove:

Emma Thompson as Joan of Arc.

propsforbella:

melancholydane:

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Why am I not a Beatrice to someones Benedick

harrietvane:

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Thompson & Branagh

aubryships:

Just one of those Emma Thomson Drinking Beer With A Pig days.

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vega-ofthe-lyre:

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

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