Audrey Hepburn "could not really act," said this star

"I'm sure she was a charming woman."


She is a Hollywood icon for his movies and style, but if you ask for a winning star Oscar,Audrey Hepburn should not be recalled for his act. Back in 2010, actor and writerEmma Thompson worked on the scenario for a remake ofMy beautiful lady It has not finished being done. And when she talked about the adaptation of the 1964 characteristics of the turning point of musical music and hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, Thompson did not have a lot of words nice to say. In fact, the British actor dealt with feedback for daring to criticize the late star.

Read on to find out what Thompson had to say about the legend.

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Thompson called Hepburn "Twee".

Emma Thompson receiving her Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010
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In an interview withHollywood journalist in 2010,Thompson was asked aboutMy beautiful lady Remake she wrote and she said, "I was delighted to be invited to do it, because, to have regarded that, I thought there must be a new version. I do not really like the film. . " She added from her star, "I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee."

She said hepburn could not sing or act.

Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in
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Thompson was asked what she meant by "Twee" and she replied: "Twee is fantastic without spirit. His sweetness Mimsy-Mumans without a kind of bite. And it's not for me."

theThe end of Howard Star then talked about other reflections on Hepburn. "She can not sing and she can not really act, I'm afraid," she says. "I'm sure she was a charming woman - and maybe if I knew it, I would have liked to act more, but I do not have it and I did not do it, so c is everything there is, it's really. "

Most Eliza songs in the 1964My beautiful ladyare actuallybe sung byMarni Nixon, not hepburn.

Hepburn played in many classic movies during his career, includingBreakfast at Tiffany's andRoman holidays. ForRoman holidaysShe won the Academy Award for the Best Actress and was named in the other four times. The beloved star died in 1993 to 63 years.

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Thompson made headlines for his comments.

Emma Thompson at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival
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Thompson was Hepburn critic and in turn she criticized herself. She made headlines for his comments, with somedefend its assessment Hepburn and others expressing that they wereoffended by this one.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In an interview with theChicago Tribune a little after,Thompson said, "I thought," What's going on here? "The woman was obviously a saint and deeply charming, but it's perfectly fair and acceptable for me to be honest on the fact that she is not my favorite actress. I love my actresses to have more than Bites, it's good. It was very strange. It was very strange. It was very strange. It was very strange. It was very strange. It was very strange. It was very strange.. It's like I just drowned a bag of kittens in front of some children. "

The remake did not come to concretize.

Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in
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In theChicago Tribune Interview, Thompson shared that she was interested in working on aMy beautiful lady Remake, because it could provide "something that was more true emotionally".

She saidHollywood journalist, "The fans of the original will not need another thing to do - and honestly, you just have to deal with that." Even though, musical comedyMy beautiful ladyis already an adaptation itself - it is based on the 1913George Bernard Shaw cheekPygmalion.

Unfortunately for anyone to be impatient of the modernized version, hehas not ended up. "I made a new version ofMy beautiful lady, that they do not do, "said Thompson in 2014, as indicated by theDaily mail. The publication indicated that there had been problems related to the search for a director, star and hardware rights.

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