Emma Thompson is sick and tired of Hollywood sexism – and no wonder: she’s been dealing with it for over three decades.

Now, in a new interview, the actress has spoken out about the moment she was told Hugh Grant was too young to play her love interest in Sense And Sensibility. Despite the fact that, y’know, she was just one year older than the actor.

“It’s extraordinary,” she told Yahoo Movies. “I remember listening to people say Hugh Grant was too young for me in Sense and Sensibility, when I was 35 and he was 34. You just go, ‘OK, this is really endemic, really deep, deep, deep in our culture’, so it has to change.”

Thompson continued: “I’ve been doing gags about this for centuries. I’ve literally been doing stand-up about this for 30 years. They’re going to have to exhume someone to play opposite me. That’s the gag. I just played a late night talk show host talking about that: ‘What are you going to do, I’m nearly 60, I’m in Hollywood, so next time someone’s going to play opposite me, who’s it going to be? They’re going to have to dig them up’.”

“And then, interestingly, I just was working with somebody who was casting a film and they cast an actress who was about 30, and they offered the role to a guy who’s a wee bit younger than her, maybe six years, and he said, ‘No, she’s too old for me’. I thought, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable…’

“The more we can show actual relationships, women with younger men, the better. Absolutely. Let’s get on with it!”

It is no small thing, then, that 2018 marks the release of Thompson’s her new movie, The Children Act – and, at 57, Stanley Tucci, her character’s husband in the film, is two years younger than the Oscar winner.

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