Emma Thompson also rules out ever having plastic surgery, saying it is ‘dysfunctional’ Actress Emma Thompson has spoken out against the use of sloppy language.
The 51-year-old Oscar winner told the Radio Times that people who did not speak properly made her feel “insane”.
She said: “We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.”
Ms Thompson added that on a visit to her old school she told pupils not to use slang words “because it makes you sound stupid, and you’re not stupid”.
She said: “There is the necessity to have two languages – one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity. Or you’re going to sound like a knob.”
The actress, who has written a new version of the musical My Fair Lady, also told the magazine that she was not interested in having plastic surgery.
“Maybe when you’re 55 you start thinking, ‘well, maybe’,” she said. “But I simply cannot imagine making that decision and dealing with my own shame.
“It really does seem to me to be quite psychologically dysfunctional and part of this ridiculous culture of perfection.”
Ms Thompson added that she felt she could not complain about this situation, only to go under the knife herself.
“As Gandhi said, you’ve got to be the change you want to see happen,” she said.
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