Emma Thompson blasts Audrey Hepburn

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Of course, Audrey was a star, and I suspect that's a big part of what a "serious" actress like Thompson looks down on.

I don't think she looks down on someone having qualities of stardom and having those over and above any perceived "acting" ability. Look at some of the people she has worked with, many of them are very much completely within the Hollywood machine and function as stars in that way: Kate Winslet, Arnold Schwarzenegger (?!), Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Grant, John Travolta, Will Ferrell. I'm not saying that they can be compared to Audrey Hepburn in terms of stardom (especially because the way Hepburn was created as a star was from a system that doesn't work in the same way any more: the big studios), more that they have a star image as well as a differing amount of acting ability alongside that.

Her comments seem more directed soloely towards Audrey Heopburn rather than any point about%2