Emma Thompson | Screenwriting Lecture by BAFTA

The writer and actor's feature screenwriting debut Sense and Sensibility (1995) remains one of the definitive Jane Austen screen adaptations. In 2001 she wrote the Golden Globe-nominated Wit for director Mike Nicholls, and in 2005 penned the family hit Nanny McPhee. She returned in 2010 with the sequel Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang.

In the second lecture of the 2014 series, Thompson described how her writing routine involves yoga and Hoovering, reflected upon her early acting experiences at Cambridge Footlights, and explained why 'if you can't fail, you can't do this job'. Chaired by screenwriter Jeremy Brock.

Recorded at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly on 20 September 2014.