Emma Thompson speaks as part of the award presentation to Honorary Award recipient Angela Lansbury at the 2013 Governors Awards in the Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, CA, Saturday, November 16.
Thompson is a great actress, authentic in every role, comfortable in her skin; and to the idiots criticising her accent, it is anything but fake: she enjoys the feelings and sounds of words...Innit.
Yes, "itgetseasierlessitry". Nicely spoken; however you forgot to mention that she is: hyper-smart, hugely successful and highly respected. Just sayin' , La Donna (to the sound of words)...
Who criticises her accent? She was born and London and to me sounds very much as if that's where she comes from. She sounds like my old friend Julia, born and bred and still living in the L.B. of H. & F. I'm from the L.B. of B. & D. myself, so don't sound quite so posh.
I've always loved Angela Lansbury, but I ADORE Emma Thompson. I have several favorite actresses but Emma, she's at the top of that pedestal! And, I LOVE her accent! I never tire of listening to her speak. And best of all, she's GENUINE! ❤⚘
I like Emma's story about the stage crew being so afraid to throw a pie in Angela Lansbury's face because she is a living icon that they respected so much. Personally, I don't think I'd be able to do it either.
I have to say this I enjoy the show Murder She Wrote because it actually was a fantastic show. Even though Angela Lansbury really was not very good in it. If you watch two shows in various seasons you will see her acting ability is terrible in them. I don't know if she was having mini-strokes while she was acting or what. But if she were delivering a line it would be all wrong she would accent either in the wrong place or make it a question rather than a statement. Really terrible. So I don't want to give her all the Fantastic Kudos that people are quick to. Watch this show and you'll see. I don't hate the woman I'm just saying weren't they paying attention when they were filming the stuff. Perhaps the director was afraid to speak up.
And now Emma Thompson will be voicing Mss. Potts in the live-action adaption of Disney's Beauty and the beast. A role in which their animated film was voiced by Angela Landsbury
And she also played Mrs. Lovett in the Live From Lincoln Center version of Sweeney Todd. Angela Lansbury played the role in the original Broadway production.
Loved Angela since I was a kid. She has such a wonderful musical voice. I grew with her mainly as Miss Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and of course, Mrs. Potts in "Beauty and the Beast". Long live Angela!
What's wrong with you all, for Christ sake? She's an actress with an RP accent (Received Pronunciation), which is the most proper one to use while speaking. I LOVE IT.
Well, she said what she felt at first was utter panic (which is such an Emma-thing to say, really), so she called Angela and told her how afraid she was to sing her iconic song and everything, and Angela told her she could calm down and needed to worry about nothing because she would without question manage to give her own personal and brilliant spin on the character and the song - and so she did. And yes, the same with Sweeney Todd's Mrs Lovett. Emma's is by far my favourite version and anyone who hasn't seen it yet really should!
All one has to do is watch her bone-chilling performance in The Manchurian Candidate to know that is true. What a shame that Hollywood never fully took advantage of her magnificent acting talent.
As of this year, Emma Thompson will now have recreated two of Angela Lansbury's most iconic roles: Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Potts in Beauty And The Beast.
A beautiful story told from the heart by one talented actress about another. What it captures about them both is a sense of fun and a taste for the irreverent. It's not a bad way to remember Dame Angela Lansbury is it? Hers was a long life, well lived, in which she touched the lives of all who met her or saw her perform. She was a wonderful character actress and as a human being, quite wonderfully herself.
She was beautiful I remember my grandma who passed putting on bed knobs and broom sticks and I always remember watching it and I thought of my nana she said she looks lovely like your nana just like Angela and I see her smile those beautiful eyes my gran was fantastic my nan still alive and she a pain but I love her and I'd like to place this as award and remembrance to my gran and to say I love you nana so much al though I've never been there for you you will always remember me of my gran the loveliness but i will always love you xxxxx thanks Angela to remember the ones you love
I don't know, Patty Duke's performance in "The Miracle Worker" was also pretty amazing. Mainly this points up that the whole idea of pitting actors and performances against each other is kind of silly, and the award is more a crap shoot than a genuine indicator of anything.
I could easyly belive that two so brolliant Actresses like Angela Lansbury and Emma Thompson make easily make friends after they worked together. and to hear miss Thompson honoured Miss Lansbury is a great Joy. Because no one can work with words like she does. She can talk abaut a Phone book and you would laugh and be amused she is brilliant. and indeed Angela Lansbury is a gread person to speak about. Thank You for this Video
Great speech Emma!! As a Hong Kong people, I really love her accent and I was trying to learn that! (but failed...) To me, I think this is her character. um.. Indeed, there is no use to criticize on this tiny little thing.
I hope to have this kind of reaction when the Oscars honored me in my long lived career, can't wait to travel with Wendy and Tim plus Brio integrated theater next year because The Real Me is coming to London sometime in mid May
So Captain Amelia in "Treasure Planet" honuors Miss Eglantine Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", but it's really Emma Thompson honours Angela Lansbury and they both appeared in "Nanny McPhee" and I love them because I have favourites on my own.