Dame Emma Thompson is a dame now. Yes, I know, it seems like she should have been a dame this entire time, but it seems the Queen only got around to making it official yesterday.
Dame Emma Thompson wore a dark green suit with crisp Stan Smiths, because her life is dope and she does dope shit, and also a little Equal Pay pin. She made a joke about kissing Prince William, which is cute, and then drank a bunch of wine and sang sweary pop songs:
here’s Emma Thompson singing a bit of Nightmares shortly after being made a Dame at Buckingham Palace pic.twitter.com/TsW8lSRiC1
— easy life (@easylife) November 7, 2018
She probably should have got it when she rebounded from Kenneth Branagh cheating on her by hooking up with the hot young dude who played Willoughby in Sense & Sensibility, or when she just sat down and wrote the screenplay for Sense & Sensibility, or for the scene where she cries hysterically as Hugh Grant proposes to her in Sense & Sensibility, or the scene where she cries quietly in Love Actually, or for the Footlights College bit in The Young Ones. But at least now justice has been served.
“I’ve got a Damehood! *snortgiggles*”
So yeah, no more dames, thanks.
I mean, who else is left? Most of the good ones are already damed – Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, probably some others. Name me another British lady awesome enough to wear that title. Everyone from, like, Rachel Weisz down is too cool to need it, and a fair few super-English stars who might come to mind are not, in fact, cool enough to deserve it. (I’m looking at you, Kate Winslet.)
Tilda Swinton could MAYBE, but honestly, damehood seems a little prosaic and earthbound and binary for our eldritch warlock-queen of deep space and sexual liberation.
Nope, Dame Emma Thompson is the last one.
