Emma Thompson, 63, says she finds young people’s expectations of sex ‘can be very disturbing’

Dame Emma Thompson has spoken out on ‘the complex issue’ of young people’s expectations of sex.

In an interview with Sky’s Beth Rigby, the veteran stage and screen star, 63, admitted she is ‘disturbed’ by the younger generations views on sex, which she blames on ‘easy access to porn.’ 

Emma was speaking ahead of the release of her new sex-worker inspired film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande co-starring Daryl McCormack.

‘Disturbing’: Dame Emma Thompson has spoken out on ‘the complex issue’ of young people’s expectations of sex

In the new interview, she admitted: ‘I think some things are worse [for my daughter’s generation] when I hear stories in schools about boys and what they expect from girls – and I mean that the easy access to porn, so anal sex is because it’s so freely available to watch in porn.

‘If you talk to young people about their sexual knowledge and what they expect and what they think sex is, it can be very disturbing indeed.

‘I think it can interfere with their sexual development because it’s all been taken away, industrialised and fed back to them in a completely un-indigestible form.’

Dame Emma, who is mother to daughter Gaia, 23, and son Tindyebwa Agaba, 27, with husband Greg Wise, also said she thinks the sexual revolution is a ‘very complex issue’.

New role:  Emma was speaking ahead of the release of her new sex-worker inspired film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande co-starring Daryl McCormack

She said: ‘It’s not like we had that and then everything was better. And now young people, it’s all better.

‘It’s never like that in human experience, we take a step forward and then we tie ourselves into weird knots because the fact of the matter is we have no respect at all for our sexual desires.

‘We ridicule them. We make them the butt of our jokes. We don’t respect what our desires are. And we find when they’re odd, which they often are we find them shameful and ridiculous.’

Emma has detailed her steamy new role in the upcoming film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande in which she plays widower Nancy, who after experiencing an unfulfilled marriage, meets with a younger male escort in the search for self discovery. 

Younger generation: In the new interview, she admitted: ‘I think some things are worse [for my daughter’s generation] when I hear stories in schools about boys and what they expect from girls’ (pictured with daughter Gaia, 23 and husband Greg Wise)

Speaking to Lorraine Kelly in a candid conversation, Emma said of her character: ‘She’s someone who has been widowed and it looking back at her life and thinking, “I’m not sure that I’ve ever experienced that essential part of my life”, or sexual pleasure of any kind.

‘She’s never had an orgasm – not even on her own.’

The upcoming film also stars Irish actor Daryl, 29, as young escort, Leo Grande.

The film, directed by Sophie Hyde, is set to be released on June 17. 

Beth Rigby Interviews continues at 9pm on June 9.

 Film: Emma has detailed her steamy new role in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande in which she plays Nancy, who after experiencing an unfulfilled marriage, meets with a younger male escort