Emma Thompson: role as family court judge was 'great privilege'

Actor tells of spending time ‘backstage’ in high court for her role in The Children Act

Emma Thompson has said that spending time at the high court for her latest role in which she plays a family court judge was an extraordinary experience and “one of the greatest privileges”.

The actor plays a judge in The Children Act, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2014 novel, in which her character has to decide whether Adam, a 17-year-old with leukaemia, should be forced to have potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the procedure going against his religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.

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