![]() “We’re terrible gossips, but ‘gossip’ in the sense that Phyllis Rose described it, the first step on the ladder to self-knowledge,” Thompson said, adding, “Gossip is discussion about life’s detail. Among those currently residing there are Thompson’s extended family: her now ninety-year-old mother her informally adopted son, Tindyebwa Agaba, and his wife, He Zhang and a collection of A-team actors, most of whom she’s worked with through the years-Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Derek Jacobi, Jim Broadbent. Her road in London is a sloping quarter mile of comfortable semidetached houses, a football field away from the swankier dwellings across noisy Finchley Road. ![]() They’re not going to put up with me being grand.” ![]() Those two places provide her with an “unassailable context” that protects her, she said, from her “capacity for self-deception.” She added, “I’m surrounded by people I’ve known since I was a child. She shuttles between London and a lush remote glen above Loch Long, in Scotland-where, in 1959, her parents paid three hundred pounds for a cottage-which was the rural idyll of her childhood. Thompson, who has been dubbed a Presbyterian in the high church of celebrity, still lives on the West Hampstead street where she grew up. Emma Thompson has what she calls “the habit of continuity,” an impulse hardwired into her by her parents, Phyllida Law and Eric Thompson, who were both actors and children from broken families.
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