Emma Thompson received the late George Michael’s blessing for her ‘Last Christmas’ movie.
The 60-year-old actress penned the festive romantic comedy film – which stars Emilia Clarke – across the singer’s music and Thompson has revealed that earlier than his passing, Michael was all for the film and its social message.
Speaking on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, she stated: ”This great producer, David Livingstone, stated, ‘Do you wish to write a screenplay, a rom-com form of factor, as a result of we want a brand new Christmas film primarily based on ‘Last Christmas,’ and I stated, ‘Not actually, as a result of it isn’t my favorite Christmas track.’ [But then] we discovered an attention-grabbing, sideways approach of telling a unique sort of story concerning the human coronary heart …
”[George] was simply the loveliest man you might think about. [He loved] all of those themes within the film; he was obsessed with homelessness, and he had this nice social conscience. I received actually enthused and we began to put in writing, after which – in fact – he had that tragic early loss of life in 2016, on Christmas Day. So we misplaced him, and I miss him a lot. I want he was right here as a result of I do know he’d find it irresistible, as a result of the movie’s like being hugged, and all of his music – we have 15 of his songs, together with a brand new one on the finish – is so cool. ‘Heal the Pain,’ which is my favorite of his songs, it is prefer it was written for the film. He stated that.”
‘Last Christmas’ might be launched in cinemas on November 15.
