Thompson Prepared For Brideshead By Cooking

EMMA THOMPSON prepared for her role as a matriarch in forthcoming film BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by cooking “family” meals for her co-stars.

The actress plays Lady Marchmain in the new film version of the novel, and became a “mother” for the film’s other actors by inviting them to her London home for dinner.

Hayley Atwell, who plays Thompson’s daughter Julia, says, “She would have us round to her house and we’d stand in the kitchen as she prepared these delicious Sunday roasts. It was her way of getting us all to bond as a family for the film.”