1 of 3 | Emma Thompson stars in "Dead of Winter," in theaters this weekend. Photo courtesy of Vertical
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Harry Potter, Sense & Sensibility and Love Actually star Emma Thompson says that even though she plays a woman fighting for her life in Dead of Winter, she isn't looking to begin an action career at this point of her life.
"It was a very bad idea to start it at the age of 66," the double Oscar-winner told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"That's just stupid, but there you go. It's nice to be.Reckless in one's third age, as it were. And since I'm in the youth of old age, what do you do when you're young? You kind of take risks. So, I thought, 'Well, I might as well take risks in this bit as well and see what happens.' And what happens is you get hurt regularly."
In theaters this weekend, the film casts Thompson as Barb, a grieving Minnesota widow who stumbles across a remote cabin where a middle-aged couple, played by Judy Greer and Marc Menchaca, are kidnapping a terrified young woman played by Laurel Marsden in the middle of winter.
