Actress Emma Thompson spoke about her career at the Locarno Festival where she received an honorary prize, but it was not on her role in the Harry Potter saga that she really wanted to dwell.
Emma Thompson is one of the most talented British actresses in the world. Holding two Oscars (best script suitable for reasons and feelings and best actress for return to Howards End), she has 3 Bafta, 1 Emmy, 2 Golden Globes and since this weekend an honorary prize given to the Locarno festival.
It was in front of an audience who came to celebrate her that she returned with franchise on her role in the Harry Potter saga, that of the Divination Professor Sybille Trelawney and the reasons why she had agreed to play it (via Deadline):
“Very well paid”
“It is not really an important part of my creative efforts, I am really sorry. I do not want to be imposed on those of you who love Harry Potter, but honestly, I arrived, I put glasses and a lot of hair and I left having been paid very well.”
A speaking that has the merit of the franchise, and which is not a surprise when you remember that the actress had been a little eaten (or precisely, demanded more money) to return to the final film Harry Potter and the death relics, divided into two parts. She had explained to our colleagues from first in 2008 that she would not make herself available, preferring to go on another project:
“I realize my own Nanny McPhee next year. This series matters so much … Harry Potter is a great franchise but to which I do not feel attached emotionally or creatively. While I wrote the Nanny Mc Phee, who are therefore closer. They are artisanal, and therefore get much more to heart.”
An essential character
Finally, a solution will be found and Professor Trelawney, who had appeared in the prisoner of Azkaban and the order of the Phoenix, is indeed in the second part of the death relics. Recall that Trelawney is essential to the saga, because it is she who declares to the director Albus Dumbledore that a young boy will be born with the power to defeat Voldemort.
Recently appeared in Bridget Jones: crazy about him (2025), Thompson has just finished the shootings of the Down Cemetery Road police with Ruth Wilson and that of Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie, a film combining live-action and animation by the director of Minions and me, ugly and nasty.
Posted on August 12, Corentin Palanchini, Allociné
