Quotes

Also – I want to know who would dare break my Emma’s heart! I know she’s probably talking about Kenneth Branagh mostly, but Emma also dated Hugh Laurie. And I think she also dated Stephen Fry at one point, maybe.

Celebitchy

I’ve had my heart broken so many times

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson: [pointing at Stephen] I used to do that to him, actually, make sure that he couldn’t get out while I was changing.
Stephen Fry: You did.
Emma Thompson: Yeah. It was very good fun.
Stephen Fry: She used to show me her breasts. [He rhymes the word with "beasts".]
Emma Thompson: This fantastic effect I used to have on him, ’cause I could make—I could do it now—I’m not going to, but I could—I could make him scream.
Stephen Fry: [small scream] No. No. Don’t.
Emma Thompson: Not like that scream that we just heard, but a real, actual sort of scream of terror and fright, just by appearing nude at the top of his stairs. [Stephen shudders.] And doing what I like to do, which is locking all the doors at the bottom, so that when he tried to get out … [Stephen mimes pounding on locked doors] … as I came down the stairs, going, “Yes, baby, they’re all yours!” By the end of which he was in a state of such extreme panic, and it’s great to make someone very clever fall apart like that.

Thompson-Fry syndrome – I wish we were all as witty as Stephen Fry or as talented as Emma Thompson, but it ain’t so. Thompson and Fry are atypical but their example (and a few others of course) has led to a confusion between establishment, accent, and intelligence.

Re the Thompson-Fry syndrome

“I can’t imagine anything more banal,” she told me at the West End premiere of her film An Education. “I would rather have a root canal than go on Twitter and can barely work a computer anyway.”

Emma Thompson