Emma's great return to film -
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In the last year Emma Thompson has made a great comeback in the film industry
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Emma's never been happier
by ALISON BOSHOFF, Daily Mail
mma Thompson has spent this week - the week of her 45th birthday - at Pinewood film studios, where she has daily been transformed into a hideously ugly woman.
The alteration is required for her film role as Nanny McPhee, a woman whose inner beauty shines through only when the seven unruly children in her charge behave themselves. By the close of the film she has gone from a warty crone to a beautiful woman.
Miss Thompson, who started writing the script five years ago, hopes it will become a modern day Mary Poppins.
But the film is interesting not just because it marks Emma Thompson's return to script- writing (she won an Oscar in 1995 for her screen adaptation of Sense And Sensibility) nor simply because it signifies her clout in Hollywood.
It is fascinating because, not so long ago, it was impossible to imagine Emma Thompson as the beautiful heroine of any film.
Long convinced she wasn't remotely attractive, she once declared at a film premiere she attended, complete with shocking red hair and Doc Martens: 'I'm too old to get glammed up in posh clothes. I'd rather look like a boy than a sex bomb.'
All that, of course, has changed. In February this year, to widespread astonishment, she reinvented herself completely.
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