Emma Thompson undergoes a transformation in "Saving Mr. Banks" playing prickly "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers who vigourously tries to maintain integrity in the now famous Disney movie adaptation of her book.
SOUNDBITE actress Emma Thompson (English), saying:
"Recent prep is no good to you. It's like revising for an exam the night before in a way for me. I need it all to be inside me in an organic way from very early on and then you just have to let go and you have leap off and you have to say 'you have to have faith' in the fact that you've done it before and maybe you'll be able to do it again. You just have to have faith in that, and that's the only way. You stop being somebody and slowly your psyche morphs back into itself with more or less difficulty depending on how badly you want to get back to yourself, which in my case is not at all ever. "
