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Thompson first came to Australia in the early 1980s with the Cambridge Footlights comedy revue, and her husband briefly went to school in Sydney, but this is her first visit to Melbourne. “I love it here,” she says.

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Vivienne Rook, played by Emma Thompson in Years And Years.

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“There is something that happens in a scene when a woman is across from another woman,” Rachel Weisz says. “It sounds really pompous, but you are free from the history of ownership. It’s liberating.”

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Paul Feig, photographed at Sugar Republic in Fitzroy.

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