14 January 2014
Most celebrities limit themselves to anodyne pleasantries but not Emma Thompson. The actress was asked to go back to her alma mater, Camden School for Girls, to give them a motivational talk. She came back with a bad review.
“The girls were all doing their ‘likes’ and ‘innits’ and it ain’ts’, which drives me insane,” writes Thompson, in the latest issue of The London Magazine for a schools supplement. “We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal freedom and power.”
Thompson is currently starring as Mary Poppins author P L Travers in the film Saving Mr Banks. The unflappable flying nanny would never have put up with an “innit”.
