Lupita Nyong’o is opening up about how some advice from Emma Thompson helped to land her on the right track after after her 2014 Oscar win for “12 Years a Slave”.
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Emma Thompson picks up her young co-star Alisha Weir in a cute hug during the Matilda The Musical photocall in London on Wednesday afternoon (October 5).
The two actors were joined by co-stars Lashana Lynch, Sindhu Vee, and Stephen Graham, for the press conference, which was just a few hours ahead of the official premiere, which kicked off the 2022 BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall.
Based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, the movie centers on Matilda, an extraordinary girl armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand against her oppressive parents and head teacher to change her story with miraculous results.
Speaking at the panel, Lashana, who plays Miss Honey, shared she had some real life inspiration in a mentor of her own.
“She was a Black woman who taught me how to be confident and to be myself,” she said. “So I thought Miss Honey is just that. She’s just here for children to give them their best selves in the most organic, sweet way.”
Matilda The Musical will open in theaters on December 9.
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Lupita Nyong’o is opening up about how some advice from Emma Thompson helped to land her on the right track after after her 2014 Oscar win for “12 Years a Slave”.
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as the brutal Miss Trunchbull in the clip — in which the plucky Matilda Wormwood overcomes cruel parents and teachers.“I like troublemakers Wormwood, they make such a lovely sound when they snap,” Thompson says, before the trailer cuts to a later scene showing Matilda standing up to her.The 2 minute, 22 second teaser also features scenes of Matilda’s abusive parents — played by Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough — neglecting the youngster and making her sleep in the attic when all she wants to do is read.It includes the famous scene from the book in which Matilda’s classmate, Bruce, gobbles down a decadent chocolate cake in front of the whole school. In another part, Miss Trunchbull grabs a girl’s pigtails and swings her around until the kid flies into the air.Lashana Lynch stars as the kind-hearted teacher Miss Honey, who becomes a friend to Matilda.
Roald Dahl’s classic heroine is leading a musical revolution.
, and Luke Kelly of The Roald Dahl Story Company. The film opened London Film Festival last week and will premiere on Netflix Dec. 25.Check out the trailer above or here.
The first ever trailer for Roald Dahl‘s Matilda the Musical has just arrived!
What’s not to love about Roald Dahl‘s “Matilda“? The 1998 children’s novel follows a precocious young girl who discovers she has superpowers and uses them to take charge of her destiny against the likes of her rotten headmaster, Miss Trunchbull. Movie fans of a certain generation will remember the 1996 film, but the book also became an award-winning musical in 2010.
Following its debut as the opening night gala at the London Film Festival last week, Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical now has an official trailer – check it out above.
Emma Thompson said the late Alan Rickman could be “terrifying” – but when he was funny he was “hilarious”. The Oscar-winning actress, 63, worked alongside Rickman throughout his career, including playing his wife in the romantic comedy Love Actually. A collection of the Harry Potter star’s diaries have been published following his death in 2016 aged 69, giving readers an intimate look at his life and career.
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, who plays Miss.Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a book-loving schoolgirl and her classmates in Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, has revealed how she had trouble getting her child co-stars to loathe her.
Emma Thompson was joined by her daughter Gaia, 22, and husband Greg Wise at the premiere of Matila The Musical at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Wednesday. The actress, 63, who plays Miss Trunchbull in the film, cut a stylish figure as she walked the red carpet alongside her fellow co-stars. Emma donned a beige leather jacket for the evening with a tassel detail which she wore with black trousers.
There are stories so good they can withstand any amount of retelling. Matilda began life as Roald Dahl’s rollicking tale of an outrageously spirited, clever little girl who defeats the bullying headmistress whose vocation is to make children miserable. The Royal Shakespeare Company turned it into a Christmas musical that burst the banks of the festive season, running for years and winning seven Olivier Awards in 2012 in London, then five Tonys the following year in New York. Now, director Matthew Warchus, along with writer Dennis Kelly and songwriter Tim Minchin, has directed the London Film Festival opener Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical for the screen. And once again, it is an absolute blast.
Guy Lodge Film Critic What children love about Roald Dahl’s books is the very thing other writers tend to dodge when adapting them: that icy, unapologetic streak of misanthropy, so exhilarating to kids who have been instructed to see the good in everyone, opening their eyes to the nastier, more ironic adult world that awaits them. Even the craftiest, classiest Dahl adaptations tend to mollify that cruelty somewhat: Nicolas Roeg’s “The Witches” is viciously frightening but tacks on an unmitigatedly happy ending, while Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” muffles the violent survivalism of its source tale with its director’s more gently quirky world-building. Already based on one of his kindlier stories, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” further softens matters by pruning the presence of its funniest adult grotesques to accommodate more child’s-eye exuberance. The long-late author probably would have grumbled; young viewers will be delighted nonetheless.
Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, and Lashana Lynch passed through the London Film Festival on Wednesday, where they discussed their new film Matilda The Musical, directed by Matthew Warchus.