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| • | "I made the huge mistake of suggesting I smoke. Jim [the director] thought this a good notion, so I sat there and smoked at least 60 filterless Players. Wonder why I gave it up. What's wrong with a tongue like a shag-pile and the breath of a moose?", she then said that she had to smoke 17 cigarettes to get a particular scene right, Premiere Magazine (UK), c. Nov. '93 |
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| • | "You can smoke too many of these bastards [roll-ups]. It's so fucking anal. Hand to mouth, mouth to hand. It's pathetic", Premiere Magazine (UK), Dec. '93 |
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| • | "By the end of the picture [Junior] she will have started smoking again", Premiere Magazine (US), Dec. '94 |
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| • | "the only thing Emma Thompson was lighting up was a roll-up cigarette. The actress wife of Kenneth Branagh was pictured taking a drag during a break in filming Sense And Sensibility in the West Country", Mail on Sunday (UK), Jun. 25, '95 |
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| • | rolls her own cigarettes because she doesn't trust the chemicals in pre-made cigarettes, "Not that any are good for you, but I believe natural tobacco isn't as bad. Who knows what they put in the others", Out Magazine, c. Jul./Sep. '95 |
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| • | rolls her own, The Advocate, Oct. '95 |
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| • | "Kate Winslet just adores Emma Thompson -- good God, she's absolutely one of her greatest friends! Last night her 'Sense and Sensibility' sister banged on her hotel- room door while holding a glass of red wine and shouting, 'Let me in, you cow, and give me a bloody cigarette'", Newsweek, Jan. 15, '96
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| • | "It is Ang Lee's first rehearsal with Hugh Grant. He admits to being nervous -- they both light up cigarettes. I watch, smugly non-smoking, but am soon to return to my old habit of rolling up my own", The Weekend Australian, Mar. 2, '96 |
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| • | "Emma and Kate moved in together, bolstering each other up through the shoot, gossiping and sharing roll-up cigarettes.", Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd., Feb. 5, '99 |
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| • | "Sense and Sensibility earned Winslet an Oscar nomination as well as inaugurating her sisterly friendship with Emma Thompson. The pair played siblings on screen and while Thompson helped Winslet with advice and taught her how to smoke roll-ups, so Winslet's authentic winsomeness seemed to loosen her mentor's mannered acting style", The Times (UK), Aug. 16, '01 |
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| • | "Kate Winslet ... gesturing toward the GQ with a cigarette she rolled herself, a habit she picked up from her Sense & Sensibility co-star Emma Thompson", National Post, Feb. 21, '03 |
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| • | "Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson are partial to them, Johnny Depp has his with a hint of licorice, and Jeremy Irons can make one single-handed while driving. The common thread for this elite group of actors is that they all roll their own cigarettes", The Independent (UK), Apr. 17, '06
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| • | "One in every four smokes consumed each year in the UK is now a roll-up. Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Johnny Depp and Jeremy Irons are aficionados", Daily Telegraph (UK), Apr. 18, '06
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| • | quit - "I don't smoke any more", Daily Express (UK), Sep. 30, '06 |
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| • | no - "Q You smoke like a lung in this film - were the fags real? A I had to smoke myself into a stupor every day and you couldn't smoke fake cigarettes. You have to get those big clouds of blue smoke and the only way you do that is with a real serious cigarette. Q Was that hard? A I was a smoker. Well, not a serious smoker because, to me, it wasn't a question of becoming addicted again. I stopped smoking as soon as I finished the film", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Dec. 1, '06
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| • | "Emma Thompson and a male pal drew disgusted stares from fellow diners (including Will Smith ) when they pulled out cigarettes and lit up at their center table at the Waverly Inn Tuesday night", New York Daily News, May 25, '07 |
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| • | "spent the night entertaining fellow partygoers by flashing her legs, gurning for the cameras, chain smoking and dancing around a lamppost before making her exit", This is Surrey Today (UK), Sep. 30, '08
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