Known primarily for her performances on stage and in front of the camera Thompson she is also a renowned screenwriter. Adaptation “Sense and Sensibility” in 1995 won her an Oscar.
In a conversation with Colbert, she admitted that talks about the use of artificial intelligence in the creative process “irritate her greatly.” “I don’t even know where to start,” she admitted. “I write everything in a notebook, old style. I believe there is a connection between the brain and the hand. This is very important to me.”
“When I write something, I transfer it to a Word document. And lately Word keeps asking me, ‘Do you want me to transcribe this for you?’ And lately I’ve been screaming at the screen, ‘You don’t have to rewrite what I just wrote, so can you fuck off? Just piss off.’ This pisses me off so much,” she continued.
Colbert suggested showing Word his Oscar for “Sense and Sensibility.” “I doubt he cares,” the actress replied. She also revealed that it was while working on this film that her aversion to technology began.
“I came back from the bathroom and it turned out that the computer had changed the entire script into hieroglyphs. All the text had disappeared,” she recalled. “I panicked and went to the hospital in my bathrobe Stephen Fry. I told him he had to help me because I didn’t have another copy. (…) He reassured me that everything would be fine. It took him eight hours to recover the text. And it wasn’t formatted. It was one long line of text. And I had to divide it again. (…) As if the computer did it on purpose.
Thompson is one of Britain’s most renowned authors and screenwriters. The main role in “Return to Howards End” and the screenplay for “Sense and Sensibility” earned her an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award. Recently we could see her in, among others, a movie “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Man”.