Audrey Hepburn 'couldn't sing and couldn't act', says Emma Thompson — Page 3

Probably Thompson has forgotten (or has blocked out the memory) that she (Thompson) played the lead in "Me and My Girl".

Not much of a singing and acting challenge there.

Updated On: 8/11/10 at 12:52 PM

I agree with Thompson, and I don't find her classless.

Hepburn is long dead and her feelings can't be hurt.

I look forward to seeing what she does with MY FAIR LADY.

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Updated On: 8/10/10 at 01:30 PM

raker, I agree Hiller is a wonderful Eliza.

One of the things I don't care for in the film MY FAIR LADY -and perhaps even the stage version - Is that Eliza is transformed from simple cockney girl to simply elegant lady.

Vs.

PYGMALION where Eliza is transformed from ignorant cocky girl girl to intelligent, elegant lady.

The Eliza of MY FAIR LADY is no match for Higgins. She is not an intellectual threat. When she says - especially as played by Hepburn - that she'll teach phonetics... it is laughable.

However when the Eliza of PYGMALION threatens to teach what she has learned from Higgins.. you believe it quite possible.

I hope Thompson is restoring that to Eliza. Otherwise it is just another Cinderella story.

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Updated On: 8/10/10 at 08:48 PM

Carey Mulligan and Emma Thompson aren't worth a pimple on Audrey Hepburn's decaying arse, either as actresses or especially in the case of Thompson, human beings. And when was the last time you heard Mulligan sing? Is she a soprano with the high notes necessary for Eliza? Based on what I have seen of her so far I already know she can't act her way out of a paper bag. Nobody has even commented on whether any of Thompson's casting choices can even sing. It's 1964 all over, except worse.

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