Audrey Hepburn is considered a screen and style icon but Oscar winner Emma Thompson says the The Breakfast at Tiffany’s star could not act.
Thompson, who is writing a new movie version of Hepburn starrer 1964 classic My Fair Lady, describes the Hollywood icon as “mumsy” and “twee” in an interview to Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
“She can’t sing and she can’t really act, I’m afraid. I’m sure she was a delightful woman — and perhaps if I had known her I would have enjoyed her acting more, but I don’t and I didn’t, so that’s all there is to it really,” the Sense And Sensibility star said. The actress is also not a great fan of the Hepburn and Rex Harrison starrer movie, which was adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. “I’m not hugely fond of the film. I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee. Twee is whimsy without wit. It is mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that’s not for me.” Hepburn won an Oscar for her role in he 1953 Roman Holiday and her films Breakfast At Tiffany’s and her role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady is considered an all time classic. Thompson is thrilled to be writing the new version of the musical but her screenplay will be more of Pygmalion.