Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I am thrilled to bring you my guest this week.

I'm gonna venture to say, yeah, I'm gonna step out on this limb.

They don't come any more charming than Academy Award winner Emma Thompson.

Everyone I talked to when I said I was going to do this interview said, I love her or

they'd put their hand over their chest and go, oh, Emma Thompson or they'd start reciting

a line from love, actually, or sense and sensibility or how it's end or her part in Harry Potter.

She's just the kind of person that you love to see when she pops up on the screen.

She her second film role of her life.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1992.

How it's end was that movie.

The next year in 93, she was nominated twice at the same Academy Awards.

Once for Best Actress, the other for Best Supporting Actress, and then a couple years after

that, she was nominated again for Best Actress for Sense and Sensibility and won the Oscar

for Best Adapted Screenplay.

We talk about that.

This was in 1995.

She took like four years and adapted Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility herself.

Set down and wrote it, made it into a screenplay and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

She grew up in the theater.

Her parents, actors, she was in a comedy troupe called The Footlights, which is a famed

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