Emma Thompson： Where are all the female heroes？

Emma Thompson says female heroism is not celebrated enough on screen.

In her latest film, The Dead of Winter, the preeminent British actor plays Barb, a widowed Minnesotan fisherwoman. Despite being soft-spoken, Barb transforms into a saviour after finding a kidnapped teenager locked in the basement of a nefarious couple.

“I got [the script] and thought, ‘This is so unique,’” Thompson tells Yahoo UK. “The writers, Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, who are Minnesotans, based this character on these women in their lives, so the authenticity of it really grabbed me.

The Dead of Winter is in cinemas from September 26.