Alec Guinness taught me facts of life at 8, says Emma Thompson: Actress 明らかにする／漏らすs 橋（渡しをする） Over the River Kwai 星／主役にする gave '静める 返答' when she questioned him

  • Alec Guinness gave '静める and 正確な' answers to Emma Thompson
  • The actress has created a sex education guide for her own daughter
  • 行方不明になる Thompson's mother, Phyllida 法律, said the 出来事/事件 made her 'faint'
  • 行方不明になる 法律 also said teachers should be いっそう少なく 厳格な，質素な about sex education

By Alasdair Glennie Tv 特派員

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Many parents dread the moment when they have to explain the birds and the bees to their children.

But in Emma Thompson’s 事例／患者, they 簡単に enlisted the help of a rather famous family friend.

When she was just eight years old, the 54-year-old was given a sex education lesson by 伝説の actor Alec Guinness.

Emma Thompson learned about the birds and the bees from actor Alec Guinness
Emma Thompson learned about the birds and the bees from actor Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness was 'calm and accurate' when questioned by a young Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson, left, got a '静める' 返答 when she questioned Alec Guinness, 権利, about the facts of life

The actress - who has 以前 認める creating a ‘sex handbook’ for her own 13-year-old daughter - received a ‘静める and 正確な 返答’ when she asked him for 詳細（に述べる）s, her mother has 明らかにする／漏らすd.

Phyllida 法律, who is also an actress, said she felt ‘faint’ at the time, but 認める she and her husband Eric were 平等に forthright when it （機の）カム to educating their two daughters about the facts of life.

The 81-year-old told the Sunday Times Style magazine: ‘I think I drew pictures. My husband was blunt and I did the diagrams. I think we laughed.

Phyllida Law, Miss Thompson's mother, felt faint when her daughter began questioning Mr Guinness

Phyllida 法律, 行方不明になる Thompson's mother, felt faint when her daughter began 尋問 Mr Guinness

‘Sex is ridiculous behaviour from adults who tell you not to 選ぶ your nose. Emma, 老年の eight, once asked Alec Guinness about the 詳細（に述べる）s and he gave her a 静める and 正確な 返答: very helpful, though I felt a bit faint.

‘Sophie, then five, listened 厳粛に, 直す／買収する，八百長をするing him with her headlamp 注目する，もくろむs.’

In an interview last year 行方不明になる Thompson, who has won two Oscars and two Baftas, 明らかにする／漏らすd she was sexually 乱用d by a children’s magician at her eighth birthday party.

She said the ‘old man’ 申し込む／申し出d her a 甘い before sticking his tongue 負かす／撃墜する her throat, 追加するing: ‘He gave me the 甘い and said, “Will you give me a kiss?” and I said yes. So I went up to kiss him on the cheek and he 工場／植物d his mouth on 地雷, stuck his tongue in my mouth and wiggled it about.

‘I thought it was my fault - children always think it’s their fault.’? 行方不明になる Thompson also said she had created a sex handbook to arm her daughter Gaia, 13, against 構成要素 she might find on the internet.

She said: ‘I drew pictures and said, you know, you can いつかs feel things in your loins you don’t feel in your heart, and you need to look at that.

‘If you listen to what’s going on in your emotional language, you will be able to keep the 性の activities 安全な.’

行方不明になる 法律, whose most 最近の TV 外見 was in ITV 演劇 Foyle’s War, 明らかにする／漏らすd her second daughter, actress Sophie Thompson, 52, has 平等に curious children.

She said: ‘My grandson Walter, while at school, did a picture of a lighthouse, which his teacher took to be やめる another thing.

‘She was not amused. Such a pity. A good laugh with a teacher on this difficult 支配する would be very 価値のある. I think she 行方不明になるd a trick.

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