“There are nuns out there with more sexual experience than me,” says Emma Thompson in a new trailer for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” From director Sophie Hyde, the coming-of-age comedy follows Nancy (Thompson), a 55-year-old woman who has never had an orgasm.
The retired widow enlists the services of a sex worker, Leo (Daryl McCormack), to cross off items on her sexual bucket list, which includes giving and receiving oral sex. Along the way, she’s confronted with her insecurities. “I’ve always been ashamed of my body,” she admits.
The former schoolteacher is really stepping outside of her comfort zone. “I’ve never done anything interesting in my life. You’re the only adventure I’ve ever had,” she tells Leo.
Asked what she’d like audiences to think about after watching the film, Hyde told us, “How important pleasure is. How we have been taught to hate our bodies and how much we lose from that. How someone else’s perspective can open things for us that we haven’t previously thought about or understood. That we have great capacity for connection. That desire can lead us to wonderful things.”
Last seen in Disney’s live-action “Cruella,” Thompson won an Oscar for her lead role in 1992’s “Howards End,” and another for writing the screenplay for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
Hyde previously helmed “52 Tuesdays” and “Animals.”
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” launches on Hulu June 17. Katy Brand (“Glued”) penned the script.
