5 Ways Emma Thompson’s New Movie About Pleasure and Sex Speaks to Us

We never doubted that the new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, would end with Emma Thompson making some happy noise and stretching her body in glorious satisfaction like a cat on a warm window sill. But it's how she gets there that provides the tension and the heart of the story (and a bit of a surprise).

Inspired by Emma Thompson's full-frontal bravery, we have launched the #NextTribeRealBodyChallenge. In a recent interview, Thompson said, "If you want to change the iconography of the female body, you need to be part of the change." We are on board. Are you? Find out more here. 

The movie follows Thompson's character, Nancy (an alias), a former religion teacher, as she hires a sex worker named Leo Grande (also an alias) in search of things she never had in her many decades of life, namely sexual adventure and, most importantly, an orgasm. She admits to Leo that she faked orgasm for the 31 years of marriage, and even gives a demonstration of how she play-acted for her husband, and let's say it's on the opposite scale of intensity from Meg Ryan's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally.