What’s Wrong With Older Women Paying For Sex?
In her new film, Emma Thompson plays a widow who hires a younger sex worker for her own pleasure — it’s not a bad idea
In her next film, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, which begins filming this year, Emma Thompson plays a 55-year-old sexually inexperienced widow who hires a sex worker in his early 20s. As she describes her character, Nancy Stokes is looking for adventure, connection and sex. Not just any sex — really good sex. For the first time ever.
“Whilst her husband Robert provided a home, a family, something resembling a life, good sex was never on offer. But he’s gone now, and Nancy has a plan. As she says, ‘there are nuns with more sexual experience than me’. So, being the reasonable, practical woman she is, and as an ex-teacher she likes to be organized, she does some thorough research and hires the services of Leo Grande, a sex worker (or ‘sex therapist’ as he prefers it) in his early twenties for a night of bliss.”
At 61, Thompson is upset that Hollywood continually casts much younger women with older men. Actually, what woman, actor or not, isn’t upset by that? It’s ageism, dismissive of women and plays to men’s egos. No surprise that Good Luck To You, Leo Grande has a female director — Sophie Hyde. (And this is why we need…
