Stanley Tucci Always Had a "Huge Crush" on Emma Thompson | 'The Children Act' | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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'The Children Act' actors Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci, screenwriter/author Ian McEwan, and director Richard Eyre discuss their new film.

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00:00What was your first impression of each other when you first met?

00:03I've always disliked him intensely.

00:05But he turned out...

00:05I was not a fan.

00:08I...

00:08No, I loved Emma.

00:12I loved her.

00:13I always had a huge crush on her.

00:15And I'm saying it.

00:16I'm saying it in front of cameras.

00:17It's true.

00:17I always had a big crush on her.

00:19And then we met...

00:20We met, I don't know, periodically over the years.

00:22We have met.

00:22We've got lots of mutual friends.

00:24That's the odd thing.

00:25Yes, yes.

00:25That's the odd thing.

00:26And now he lives in Blighty, you see.

00:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29And he's married to a Blighty.

00:31Yeah.

00:32Yes, that's right.

00:33So now we can get my hands on him.

00:35We can hang out now.

00:36Yeah.

00:41Well, I play Fiona May, who's a family court judge.

00:45And she is having a very difficult time at home with her husband.

00:51And goes in and a new case is being put before her,

00:54which is about a Jehovah's Witness young man

00:58who is refusing a blood transfusion.

01:01He has leukemia and he needs the blood transfusion to live.

01:04But because of his religious beliefs, he's refusing.

01:07And he has support from his religious community

01:09and his parents in that decision.

01:12And so she has to make her own decision

01:16about whether this is the right or the wrong thing to do.

01:19And another part of this story involves Stanley Tucci.

01:23You play Fiona's husband.

01:24Can you explain what's going on between the two of you as well?

01:27Would you?

01:28Yes.

01:29There's tension in the marriage, which is unusual.

01:32It's never happened to me, ever.

01:34No, no, no.

01:34And they've sort of grown apart for whatever reason.

01:40And this case sort of, I suppose, in some ways blows things wide open,

01:45certainly for her emotionally and then ultimately for them as a couple.

01:51So the boy in question here is played by Fionn Whitehead,

01:54who has made many, many waves after Dunkirk.

01:58Can you all talk about what it was like to work with him,

02:00especially because in this movie,

02:01he has so many more lines than he did in Dunkirk?

02:04Yeah, yeah.

02:06Well, Finn, I first met him,

02:09and he said, I'm in this movie called Dunkirk.

02:12And I said, well, who's the star?

02:14And he said, I think I am.

02:16And he's very, very touching, very vulnerable,

02:21but quite confident and quite tough.

02:26He had leukemia in the film.

02:29His character is suffering from leukemia.

02:31And I said to him, how much do you know about leukemia?

02:34He said, oh, well, my mum just died of leukemia,

02:38so I know quite a lot.

02:40And it's a measure of how dignified and self-possessed he is

02:46that you never knew.

02:49He's entirely professional

02:51and very, very, very touching and skilful actor.

02:54And he went off after doing this, having done Dunkirk,

02:58to do a little play called Natives in a small theatre,

03:01which I went to see.

03:02And he was absolutely fantastic on stage.

03:05Yeah.

03:05Actually, Duncan came as well.

03:07It was just so great to see him doing something that's not film.

03:11You know, I think he's the real thing,

03:12is the point, I think, that we would wish to say about that,

03:15because our industry will tend to take,

03:18particularly people who are beautiful,

03:20and swallow them up, spit them out,

03:22you know, just get them into something,

03:24make them famous, make them money, you know,

03:26and then they're over.

03:27And I don't think that's going to happen to Finn,

03:29because he's just too original and strong,

03:32and he's good,

03:33and he can really, really develop into something great.

03:35I think that's true.

Stanley Tucci Always Had a "Huge Crush" on Emma Thompson | 'The Children Act' | TIFF 2017

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