EMMA THOMPSON GIVES VOICE TO STRANGER THAN FICTION

Emma Thompson stars as author Kay Eiffel in Stranger Than Fiction who is on assignment to write her next best seller but she can’t seem to come up with a way of killing her lead character. Emma who is a screenwriter in her own right talks about her character’s idiosyncrasies.

As she’s writing the novel Emma’s voice becomes the narrative inside Will Ferrell’s head, a device that she thought was very original for a film. She says she was attracted to how each character was written to express their own unique voice.

“She’s a writer, she’s British and she’s suicidal, quite a common trio of existence I think because we’re depressive I think by nature; writers I mean and British people. So she’s nihilistic in her ways and writes tragedies only in which people die often in very unfair and unpleasant ways.”

Next Emma reprises her role as Professor Sybil Trelawney in Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix.rn

“I got the script and I read the first page and rang Lindsay (the producer) and said, ‘I’ll do it’ because it was clear from the get go that it was truly and original voice first. Then every character had spoken a different way. I know that sounds basic but you will find in 99 screenplays out of 100 everyone sounds the same and it’s not good enough. Not enough attention is paid to dialogue and dialogue is everything.”