Emma Thompson on Writing Last Christmas and Hedgehogs in the UK

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025
  • Emma Thompson talks about writing Last Christmas with her husband for eight years, the inner depths of George Michael and why hedgehogs have left the UK.
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Комментарии • 246

  • @themripley
    @themripley 5 лет назад +356

    I love how the conversation went completely off the rails with the hedgehog stuff at the end.
    "To me, all hedgehogs look alike".
    "Enjoy France!"

    • @communistjesus
      @communistjesus 5 лет назад +3

      !!!!DON'T SUPPORT ANTI HEDGEHOG FEELINGS...YOU ANTI HEDGEHOGINIST!!!!

    • @dantaylor7344
      @dantaylor7344 5 лет назад +1

      Alcohol for you

    • @Nathanyel
      @Nathanyel 5 лет назад +7

      The only downside was that it made me realize the movie isn't called "Last Christmas and Hedgehogs"

    • @Nathanyel
      @Nathanyel 4 года назад

      @Alexandra McLean well that's, uh, a bad decision, honestly.

  • @roytorical
    @roytorical 5 лет назад +249

    This woman is my QUEEN.

    • @Afrimusican
      @Afrimusican 5 лет назад +3

      No, she's muh QWEEN.

    • @Nathanyel
      @Nathanyel 5 лет назад

      British politics confuse me again day after day.

  • @136minutes
    @136minutes 5 лет назад +141

    "I like christmas because I had a nice childhood" GOLD!

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 4 года назад +2

      I hate Christmas. Guess what kind of childhood I had...

  • @IsaDesOsiers
    @IsaDesOsiers 5 лет назад +62

    Seth Meyers is a really good interviewer, actually. I adore Emma Thompson, and he let's her talk, string together several sentences and develop a thought, which, in my mind, is the desired outcome.

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 4 года назад +4

      I love Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers equally, but I think Seth is the better interviewer.

    • @IsaDesOsiers
      @IsaDesOsiers 4 года назад +3

      @@maryrosekent8223 I do like Colbert, but I do think I agree with you on this.

  • @kattissmall8373
    @kattissmall8373 5 лет назад +121

    This just made me so happy for some reason. I could listen to Emma and Seth talk about hedgehogs and other woodland animals for hours. It's soul healing.

    • @sleepingrosess
      @sleepingrosess 5 лет назад +5

      oh same, i can't stop smiling!

    • @nedoud
      @nedoud 2 года назад

      Funny bit, but please NEVER give hedgehogs milk, as they are lactose intolerant. Give them water and hedgehog/cat food. X

  • @MsIngPeaces
    @MsIngPeaces 5 лет назад +362

    “...although I did need to earn some money- and that’s what Christmas is all about👏🏻”

    • @julianwarmington1267
      @julianwarmington1267 5 лет назад

      Listen Without Prejedice: The full album
      ruclips.net/video/goroyZbVdlo/видео.html

  • @Ernie1978
    @Ernie1978 5 лет назад +75

    This might be my favourite Emma Thompson interview. Seth is a brilliant host! I love that he doesn't have to hold card, he actually knows his stuff and is super funny. Kimmel and Fallon could learn a lot from Seth. There, I've said it!

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 5 лет назад +5

      Ernie
      Fallon and Kimmel are a pretty low bar...

  • @iamirish4361
    @iamirish4361 5 лет назад +508

    When you book Emma, don't book anyone else and let us just enjoy her.

  • @logicandlaughs
    @logicandlaughs 5 лет назад +14

    This was pure joy... loved hearing the hedgehog conversation. She's one of my favorite actresses of all time.

  • @eastvandb
    @eastvandb 5 лет назад +27

    It only takes the smallest provocation and she's back doing improv where she started in the biz. That makes these two a great pairing.

  • @wantury
    @wantury 5 лет назад +77

    I LOVE that Seth playing along with the story and made Emma laugh at the end. Usually this kind of interview(a.k.a. ad for the movie) ends awkwardly by the talk show host with introduction of movie and ALWAYS interview is too short for having a decent conversation nor jokes. So the guest have to brag about the experience with some big time actors or sacrifices their privacy for marketing. Some of those interviews are not bad, but they all the same at the end. It's wonderful that Seth appreciates the talk with the guest(who can talk and joke in this case) even it's not on the track that it supposed to be.

  • @likebot.
    @likebot. 5 лет назад +114

    What just happened there? Seth and Emma improv? Best late-nite TV in ages.

  • @kaumudee
    @kaumudee 5 лет назад +47

    I'm so happy George Michael's genius and talent is being acknowledged and admired again...He was a stellar human being and I'm so sad he's gone :'(

  • @kathleendircks907
    @kathleendircks907 5 лет назад +6

    Anything attached to Emma Thompson, I will LOVE. Her films have soul.

  • @kefinkamed
    @kefinkamed 5 лет назад +3

    It was SOOOO worth it. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and I can honestly say it blew me away. One of the best Christmas movies I have ever seen. It absolutely nails what Christmas is truly about without being tacky, and it is effortlessly original and completely beautiful

  • @kateshyne4687
    @kateshyne4687 5 лет назад +405

    Seth and Emma need to go day drinking together...

  • @Attabasca
    @Attabasca 5 лет назад +3

    This woman is just lovely. I've loved her since watching Dead Again back in '91.

  • @ikbelleib8136
    @ikbelleib8136 4 года назад +10

    If you ever feel sad just watch Emma Thompson in interviews
    You're very welcome

  • @rolybling
    @rolybling 5 лет назад +5

    Listen Without Prejudice is indeed one of the greatest albums of all time. A masterpiece.

  • @c.b.m.5621
    @c.b.m.5621 5 лет назад +3

    I watch Seth every night. His "A Closer Look" segment is a favorite of mine. This particular episode was hilarious and so entertaining.
    Love Emma Thompson.
    She's always a wonderful talk show guest. So intelligent, witty and funny. One of my favorite actresses.

    • @whiskeysudsjackwagon8510
      @whiskeysudsjackwagon8510 5 лет назад

      you do know there is a whole world out there, you don't have to watch that drivel?

  • @Doncataitu123
    @Doncataitu123 4 года назад +1

    This is the most beautiful film I have seen in years. It is funny, touching and intelligent. The actors are so good. Emma Thompson is such a talented writer!

  • @SJ-is2os
    @SJ-is2os 5 лет назад +4

    Pearlise the grit... what a lovely way to put across that idea. Love Emma Thompson

  • @L2u9
    @L2u9 5 лет назад +10

    The quality you get when a person doesn't use like as a connector OUTSTANDING

  • @cobracommando0615
    @cobracommando0615 5 лет назад +52

    MY CRUSH!!! I swear I absolutely LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!!

    • @sourabhsg13
      @sourabhsg13 5 лет назад +5

      Get in line mister!
      I may be gay.
      But that's how I shall win her over!

    • @cobracommando0615
      @cobracommando0615 5 лет назад +5

      @@sourabhsg13 Dam!!! Ok...now serving #2? I'm right behind ya!!! She just oozes with such beauty and high class and her smile? Yeah I'm in line for sure!!

    • @sourabhsg13
      @sourabhsg13 5 лет назад +5

      @@cobracommando0615 she's true royalty!!

    • @sourabhsg13
      @sourabhsg13 5 лет назад +3

      @@cobracommando0615 Jimmy Fallon interview is awesome as well btw in case you haven't seen it yet

    • @ernestomarcos0103
      @ernestomarcos0103 5 лет назад +2

      Impossible not to.

  • @Valdagast
    @Valdagast 5 лет назад +339

    I'm sure she has done bad movies but has she ever been _bad_ in a movie? I don't think so.

    • @gentillygirl545
      @gentillygirl545 5 лет назад +25

      Categorically NO. She is brilliant at her craft!! I can watch Much Ado About Nothing forever.

    • @srkh8966
      @srkh8966 5 лет назад +3

      Valdagast Has she, though?

    • @ffeff8353
      @ffeff8353 5 лет назад +15

      Of course not. The woman is incapable of it! Goddess Emma.

    • @ItsMadaleine
      @ItsMadaleine 5 лет назад +4

      She's always brilliant!

    • @palomajune1863
      @palomajune1863 5 лет назад +3

      She was pretty good in the abomination that is Junior, tbh

  • @g.cosper
    @g.cosper 5 лет назад +9

    Emma is the light of my life! So brilliant so witty, so female, so funny, so astounding, so correct, so free, so powerful. My god, where is her statue already!

  • @MissasDuke
    @MissasDuke 5 лет назад +7

    Omg...she is a riot!

  • @Ablasuena
    @Ablasuena 3 года назад

    This is so beautiful! I listened to the hedgehog part three times, and will come back to it again. Improv is life! Emma is life! And Seth is such a nice unspoiled host. This was pure, thank you guys for going off the rails where the magic tends to happen.

  • @sleepingrosess
    @sleepingrosess 5 лет назад +2

    I could listen to her laugh for the rest of my life honestly, i can't stop smiling after that laughter at the end :')

  • @Slot-ok1en
    @Slot-ok1en 5 лет назад +1

    i just loveeeeeeee her
    its her genuine niceness thats sooooooo apparent

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz 5 лет назад +70

    This Woman is in League with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, of course it went off the rails in a Very Funny Way. Oscar winner BAFTA Winner. Deserved.

    • @ffeff8353
      @ffeff8353 5 лет назад +7

      Well, they all cut their comedy teeth together, after all. Makes sense. The unusual bit is that three such brilliant characters (well, there were some more in the mix, almost as good) coincided in time and space, to the benefit of the world at large!

    • @specialwhenlit8435
      @specialwhenlit8435 5 лет назад +3

      @@ffeff8353 Right? Here's a clip of all 3 of them performing together in 1986, love this group as always!: ruclips.net/video/W9crgpsKj70/видео.html

    • @NicoleTunis
      @NicoleTunis 5 лет назад +1

      @@ffeff8353 and Ben Elton, Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French

    • @NicoleTunis
      @NicoleTunis 5 лет назад

      @@specialwhenlit8435 ruclips.net/video/Wi5SJKI6RpU/видео.html

  • @da96103
    @da96103 5 лет назад +79

    Brexit Hedgehogs, sounds like an animated movie idea.

  • @RyanReeder
    @RyanReeder 5 лет назад +7

    You know who else I've noticed has been much more appreciated in recent years since his death? Mr. Rogers. That guy was a saint and a hero.

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 5 лет назад +2

      Ryan Reeder
      Sometimes when someone is ahead of his time, it takes awhile for history to catch up!

    • @Tracymmo
      @Tracymmo 5 лет назад

      I have a book of his quotes that I treasure.

  • @adelaferreira4575
    @adelaferreira4575 7 месяцев назад

    I know she is a terrific writer,I had no idea this movie was her doing as well,what a genius Emma Thompson is !

  • @sourabhsg13
    @sourabhsg13 5 лет назад +67

    Nooooooooooooooo! I want the hedgehog story!

    • @oliviafielding6790
      @oliviafielding6790 5 лет назад +4

      based on the direction of what they were talking about i think she was going to make an analogy between putting food out for a hedgehog to come into your house and it will slowly creep in and scurry away until it finally comes and eat/drink safely to her husband opening up about his childhood/christmas

  • @enatp6448
    @enatp6448 5 лет назад +1

    Listen without Prejudice is such an incredible album.

  • @charlie5115
    @charlie5115 5 лет назад +19

    Loving Emma’s outfit and hair here! 🤩😍

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 5 лет назад +4

      Charlie
      No. Her great strength is that she manages to be ravishingly beautiful _despite_ her dull clothes and yucky looking hair. Sorry!

    • @charlie5115
      @charlie5115 5 лет назад +2

      Mary Rose Kent You’re a moron.
      Sorry!

    • @kiereluurs1243
      @kiereluurs1243 5 лет назад +1

      Yeez Charlie, look again...

  • @bi1itis
    @bi1itis 5 лет назад +14

    She needs to have her own late night show!

    • @n.q1158
      @n.q1158 5 лет назад +1

      Completely agreed. At least we can imagine it by watching her as Katherine Newbury in "Late Night" again and again...

  • @jacovawernett3077
    @jacovawernett3077 5 лет назад +1

    I love and adore Emma Thompson...Blessings from Jacova 11..Gevurah born in Bethlehem. March 11...1962...

  • @jlcollins14
    @jlcollins14 5 лет назад +46

    Emma's next movie - Harry Hedgehog goes to France!

    • @Tracymmo
      @Tracymmo 5 лет назад +4

      YES! With lots of sly digs at Boris Jonson that only adults would recognize in a kids movie.

    • @barrythebluebear
      @barrythebluebear 5 лет назад +1

      Fantastic! I'll make the little hedgehog passport stamp.

  • @geoffreyfeinberg9792
    @geoffreyfeinberg9792 5 лет назад +9

    She's creative.

  • @ItsMadaleine
    @ItsMadaleine 5 лет назад +7

    Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite movies. I hated Willoughby, but glad she married him IRL 😂 They are such a great couple.

    • @siobhanmulvey
      @siobhanmulvey 5 лет назад

      Madaleine right! I think I knew that fact. Thank you for reminder👍🏼🌸

  • @quentinlynch
    @quentinlynch 5 лет назад +3

    Best late night show, best actress! Love it!

  • @nicolesanchez4954
    @nicolesanchez4954 5 лет назад +14

    Seth and Emma should write a screenplay together!

  • @SChin-cc7yd
    @SChin-cc7yd 5 лет назад +2

    Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, acted together in the movie, Sense and Sensibility (along with Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet). Not sure why she would say she never acted with him.

  • @ginbo33
    @ginbo33 5 лет назад +3

    i came here after watching the jimmy fallon interview and wow what a difference. Emma is amazing in both but Seth is more of an equal partner in the dialogue :D amazing!

  • @maremacd
    @maremacd 5 лет назад +3

    That was delightful. 🤗

  • @notiskoundouris9320
    @notiskoundouris9320 5 лет назад +13

    Ηοw sweet is this woman!!!!!!!

  • @anahithieli6422
    @anahithieli6422 3 года назад

    I love HER!! Emma is incredible!!!

  • @weisbars5
    @weisbars5 4 года назад +1

    Emma and her husband was in the same movie 'Sense and Sensibility'

  • @ferdiyansurya
    @ferdiyansurya 3 года назад

    "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart ..." , literally. And that's the idea of the movie.

  • @jenniferjager6259
    @jenniferjager6259 5 лет назад

    Oh I love her so much 😍😍😍😍

  • @simonfrederiksen104
    @simonfrederiksen104 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you, Emma!

  • @alexxhristova
    @alexxhristova 5 лет назад +3

    i love her! ♥

  • @gpeddino
    @gpeddino 5 лет назад +6

    In Brazil you start seeing Christmas decorations in August. Here the year is pretty much split between Christmas and Carnival.

  • @noeliajaime7656
    @noeliajaime7656 5 лет назад +2

    Loooove her.

  • @gerbmcnuggets5466
    @gerbmcnuggets5466 5 лет назад +5

    When you have a talk show at 8 but have to invade the beaches at Normandy at 9

  • @sadiqmohamed681
    @sadiqmohamed681 5 лет назад +1

    This was truly hilarious! Nice one Seth.

  • @williamfrazier5010
    @williamfrazier5010 5 лет назад +2

    She's awesome.

  • @MawenMendoza
    @MawenMendoza 5 лет назад +5

    Laaaast Christmas 😌

    • @jayweh
      @jayweh 5 лет назад +1

      don't.

  • @RedcoatT
    @RedcoatT 5 лет назад +1

    In the UK Love Actually is not considered a Christmas film, its not regularly shown at Christmas.

  • @lynxvex
    @lynxvex 5 лет назад

    Man, that was an awesomely entertaining interview!

  • @angellas.1314
    @angellas.1314 5 лет назад

    Love her!

  • @adam_p99
    @adam_p99 5 лет назад +1

    She’s beautiful and funny. I definitely would. I met her once, but didn’t tell her this.

  • @4ctmam
    @4ctmam 5 лет назад +37

    This woman is the personification of class.

    • @triluna0
      @triluna0 5 лет назад

      I’m thinking you meant, “personification”, hopefully.
      Otherwise it’s rather insulting. 🤭

    • @4ctmam
      @4ctmam 5 лет назад

      @@triluna0 yeah, I'm not a native speaker. Fixed the original comment.

    • @kimberlysayer5113
      @kimberlysayer5113 5 лет назад

      Congratulations on being multilingual! Also, I'm now dying to know the original word, lol!

    • @4ctmam
      @4ctmam 5 лет назад

      ​@@kimberlysayer5113 I originally said "impersonation".

    • @kimberlysayer5113
      @kimberlysayer5113 5 лет назад

      Aaahhh, definitely not as good, lol!

  • @sanieisleam3225
    @sanieisleam3225 5 лет назад

    Can i say just one thing please???... i love that woman/ everything about her!!! Yes !!!

  • @MJ18888
    @MJ18888 5 лет назад +18

    When she says "my old man", she meant her husband. Just in case people didn't know.

    • @_Sakidora_
      @_Sakidora_ 5 лет назад +1

      My old man's a dustman, he wears a dustman's hat, he wears cor blimey trousers and lives in a council flat.

    • @azjmsxhn
      @azjmsxhn 5 лет назад

      Thank you captain obvious 😊

    • @madhatter909
      @madhatter909 5 лет назад +1

      @@_Sakidora_ OMG I haven;t heard this for over twenty years, lol

  • @annasndl
    @annasndl 5 лет назад

    She is the best of the best

  • @jazzguitar3441
    @jazzguitar3441 5 лет назад

    Her little wiggle at 5:58 is so cute....

  • @breakshot7451
    @breakshot7451 5 лет назад +1

    every time emma laughs this way like in the end of the interview every member of the angel army gets a new pair of flying goggles

  • @Malaima
    @Malaima 5 лет назад +3

    the analogy was how to lure hedgehogs inside = how to make her husband like christmas, after 25 years

  • @anacionqtfixo
    @anacionqtfixo 5 лет назад

    Emma is so smart.

  • @Redhunteur2
    @Redhunteur2 5 лет назад +2

    Hedgehogs RULE!

  • @geofromnj7377
    @geofromnj7377 5 лет назад +7

    Emma Thompson is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 5 лет назад

      Geo fromNJ
      And funny, and sexy, and supremely talented!

  • @toobasaurus23
    @toobasaurus23 5 лет назад

    She's divine.

  • @Janimlaine
    @Janimlaine 5 лет назад +31

    Do not give milk or at least make it non-lactose one... Better give just cat food and water.

    • @VanderlyndenJengold
      @VanderlyndenJengold 3 года назад

      Years ago we we told to feed them bread and milk and they're both bad for hedgehogs. They can't digest milk and they get the squits and dehydrate. Bread lacks nutrition. Then we went on to nuts and mealworms and they lacked calcium and hogs had bad bones. Now we have listened to scientists and feed them what they need yet there's few left... and not everyone bothers anyway.

  • @pjarts1847
    @pjarts1847 3 года назад

    I always come back here for the hedgehog story..

  • @asterixky
    @asterixky 5 лет назад +1

    Une actrice formidable

  • @Hypatia52
    @Hypatia52 5 лет назад

    What a relief to find that Seth Myers can be funny without referring to the humongous bloated Orange Pumpkin! And Emma Thompson is brilliant, as usual!

  • @Salieri21
    @Salieri21 5 лет назад +1

    Listen Without Prejudice & Older are two of the best albums in the last 50 years.

  • @lemontea9735
    @lemontea9735 5 лет назад

    Aw I love Christmas though

  • @livb6945
    @livb6945 5 лет назад

    The hedgehog story was a metaphor for her husband coming around about celebrating Christmas.

  • @pspicer777
    @pspicer777 5 лет назад +6

    Hmm, 60 never quite looked so good. What a smart lady. Really nice interview.

  • @jazzguitar3441
    @jazzguitar3441 5 лет назад

    So the hedgehog analogy was probably that it takes a treat and a lot of time to lure in a hedgehog, and that it was the same with Greg and Christmas, that it took 25 years to make him bear it or something.... Luckily, we can probably read about it in the book they wrote, called "Last Christmas".

  • @Alcagaur1
    @Alcagaur1 5 лет назад +3

    I was half-expecting the good dame to give us a rousing rendition of The Hedgehog Song from Terry Pratchett.

  • @allnargles
    @allnargles 5 лет назад +1

    Her husband is Lord Mountbatten in The Crown.

  • @eddyk3
    @eddyk3 5 лет назад

    I played soccer with a Hedgehog once... he popped the ball.

  • @HisameArtwork
    @HisameArtwork 5 лет назад +1

    I want a movie with the hedgehog emigration! PETITION TODAY! and I'm willing to wait for her 8 years to make it. I heard the world is ending in 12 so we have time to see it.

  • @Lommy9999
    @Lommy9999 5 лет назад +2

    This interview is the same as the Fallon one?....

  • @zsk8301
    @zsk8301 5 лет назад +2

    I am not a Seth Meyers fan but that was an interesting interview.

  • @sleepingrosess
    @sleepingrosess 5 лет назад +1

    my favourite human™ ❤

  • @j.b.9260
    @j.b.9260 5 лет назад +2

    I'm 29 and I think she's insanely attractive.

  • @Withjoyfulsenescence
    @Withjoyfulsenescence 5 лет назад +1

    How to be you po, dame Emma thompson? I want to radiate Sunshine but somehow I keep casting dark clouds.😆

  • @mickyblessy
    @mickyblessy 11 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @michaelcain9324
    @michaelcain9324 5 лет назад

    Great ending.

  • @Jim73
    @Jim73 5 лет назад +1

    Emma is such a wonderful woman. Extremely fond of her. She got a hedgehog from Wildlife Aid Foundation in England, and here's the vid: ruclips.net/video/gNph923RYWw/видео.html

  • @ancapetruta4309
    @ancapetruta4309 5 лет назад

    GREAT LADY!

  • @commonsense571
    @commonsense571 5 лет назад +1

    Seth you monster! I needed to hear the hedgehog bit!!

  • @RusstheTroubadour
    @RusstheTroubadour 5 лет назад

    Emma Thompson comes on to promote Last Christmas the ads after Seth's segments are for Last Christmas damn You Tube algorithm 🙃😉

  • @_Sakidora_
    @_Sakidora_ 5 лет назад

    Christmas is supposed to last until February, to Candlemas on the 2nd.