The acclaimed British actress Emma Thompson is currently working on an adaptation from a feminist perspective of the Greek classic “The Iliad” by Homer for the big screen, according to what she revealed at the Hay Festival held in Wales.
Thompson, who did not give details about the production, dates, or possible actors starring in that film, specified that the film will be based on the modern rereading that British writer Pat Barker made in 2018 in her novel “The Silence of the Women”, a story of the Trojan War told from the point of view of Briseis, a slave in the hands of the Greeks.
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In her intervention yesterday at the literary festival, Thompson, one of the most unanimously recognized British actresses, said she wants with her project to draw attention to sexual crimes in wars and conflict zones, according to today’s report in The Times.
“Rape is used as a weapon of war, and rape is something that shames us as perpetrators and as victims. However, if we do not start telling stories about how to survive rape, then it will never be the heroic act that it truly is”, Thompson specified.
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“The actions of women during war have not been explored enough because of that shame before an extremely common act”, she reflected.
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It is not the first time that Thompson tries to break the taboos of sex: in fact, back in 1988 her comic sketch ‘Victorian mouse’ became famous, in which a Victorian society lady describes with apparent naivety the genital anatomy of her husband.
Or much more recently when in 2022 she played in ‘Good Luck, Leo Grande’ the role of a mature woman who hires the services of a gigolo to discover that this step had not helped her achieve her own pleasure.
