Emma Thompson's performance in love actually

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I know this has been down to death.
But, I've just finished watching LA and I'm still in awe of her amazing scene. In fact, it's not just that scene...but the ones following.

I've been through the marriage breakdown due to OW. In fact, the bastard left for "or worse...it's love.." and I'm balling my eyes out 5 years later!

I wish I had been as dignified as she was! The feelings flood back with a massive surge every time I see this film. I don't think I've ever watched a scene with such dramatic effect on me.

I know that MN has this conversation every Xmas since 2003 (bloody hell. 2003 and I was loved up to the eyeballs with knobhead xh and we had just got engaged literally week before). But ianbu? Am I?

Have any other scenes made you as emotional as this one had made me?

cant stand the knob now btw

That scene is Emma Thompson at her best. Love her. Joni Mitchell playing in the background is perfection. And Love Actually is (whispers) actually my favourite film ...

Yes, that scene has hit a nerve with me in the past definitely. I’ve been there playing the ‘everything is OK charade’. I watch it every year, it’s waiting for me on the sky box, I shall watch it at the weekend.

I agree, she's brilliant. I love her as Nanny McPhee aswell.

Yes, I've been in that exact situation too, and watching Emma makes me tear up every time. She is so controlled ( for her children) while totally breaking up inside , it's a perfectly acted scene. And when she straightens up and walks outside and finds them all waiting to go out, her "acting normal" is so perfect, every cheated-on woman will understand her ability to do that in front of the children . I'm getting tearful just thinking about it.

She is brilliant in that scene but don't forget she knew what it was like to be cheated on by her husband for real.

Yes, but it's recreating that feeling to the extent where it visibly make any woman who's been the same identify with it that's the art of her acting. I first watched LA in December 2004, just after I realised that my own DP was having a thing with someone - we hadn't split up yet, but I was at home with DM and DF , the kids were in bed, and it was nearly Christmas. (I obviously didn't know THAT scene was going to be there.) I blubbed - quietly.
Every time it gets me, tbh. Even now, although I've happily married someone else (who isn't a complete wanker), the 2 DCs I had at the time have grown up, and I've had 2 more, and have COMPLETELY changed as a person.

I’ve been in that situation too and it’s beautifully acted by ET. I remember watching ‘He’s just not that into you’ when I had found out my DP was cheating on me and there’s a scene where Bradley Cooper’s wife (can’t remember the actresses’ name) finds some hidden cigarettes and she realises that he hasn’t stopped lying to her and she can’t trust him. I’ll never be able to watch that film again.

Something about the way she smooths down the bed as well. A small gesture but says a lot....

Love Actually is my fave film, that scene gets me every time. I'm watching it tonight while I do my Christmas wrapping and I can't wait.

And then she decided that drugging and anally raping 13 year olds was fine and signed petitions saying so, at which point I stopped think she was a decent person. Rape is ok so long as you are emma’s Friend? No. I don’t think so.

(Yes, I know she “apologised”. It’s still not ok).

Most of her stuff was actually cut out of the film but is there on the DVD extras. Worth watching.

Reflectent- sorry?

Polanski?

I’m guessing Reflectent is referring to the Roman Polanski case. A crowd of luvvies leapt to his defence and revealed themselves to be self-serving sycophants who thought real life and right and wrong shouldn’t intrude the rarified bubble of celebrity.

I feel the same about Whoopi Goldberg. I hadn’t realised Emma Thompson was similarly tainted. Shame - I liked her.

Yep
Emma Thompson and Kate winslet are nothing to me now. Shame

Hadley assessed the affair here:

www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/30/hollywood-reverence-child-rapist-roman-polanski-convicted-40-years-on-run

Polanski is a child rapist. When he was arrested a lot people, many of whom would later say how terrible Weinstein was for assaulting rich, powerful adults leapt to polanski’s defence and said drugging and anally raping a child all happened s long time ago and he had a hard life.

At the time:

www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/30/hollywood-reverence-child-rapist-roman-polanski-convicted-40-years-on-run

Her later cries of horror about Weinstein, like Meryl streep’s Are bullshit. They were ok about the rape of children, it’s only actors who count.

Anyone seen :Wit"? Emma Thompson directed and is the main character. It's almost a monologue about a dry academic that gets terminal ovarian cancer. Set in hospital. Blimey, it must be her ET at her best, the film is not easy to get hold of but it changes your life.
LA is brill, and I agree ET is awesome in it, but watch "Wit" and you'll be doubly lost for words...

Sorry, wrong c&p.

jezebel.com/5396999/emma-thompson-to-remove-name-from-polanski-petition

Going against the grain here Im not fond of her in it... It's too.... I can't put my finger on it....

I’m not fond of that scene either , less respect to her for the polanski involvement.

Zevitevitchofcwsmas mannered? Stagey?

She overacts everything, i don't rate her as a actress at all.

I can't look at Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet or Meryl Streep the same way since their behaviour wrt Polanski. It's ruined my favourite films - I loved Bridges of Madison County and Love Actually.

I can't abide her.

Doesn't do anything for me - she is so overrated as an actress and plays herself in every role. Add to that the Polanski issue plus her description of Britain as “a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island” she can fuck off.