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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Work aimed at children is ‘sacred’ says Emma Thompson as Matilda the Musical premieres

Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical.
Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull in the latest adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Photograph: Dan Smith/© 2022 Sony Pictures U.K. & Tristar Pictures

Producing work for children “is the most sacred work we ever have”, Emma Thompson has said ahead of the world film premiere of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical.

The actor, who plays tyrannical headmistress Agatha Trunchbull in the latest adaptation of the popular children’s novel, told reporters at the opening of the London film festival that she grew up surrounded by the work of Dahl.

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