Emma Thompson looks sexy and slim at Saving Mr Banks premiere... just days after stating 'pressure to be thin is terrible'

PUBLISHED: 04:20 EST, 10 December 2013 | UPDATED: 06:52 EST, 10 December 2013

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Actress Emma Thompson was more than happy to show off her slim figure in a skintight brown dress at the premiere of Saving Mr Banks in Los Angeles on Monday.

Her appearance comes after she opened up about the pressure on young actresses to be thin.

The 54-year-old told The Telegraph: ‘It seems young actresses are under pressure to look a particular way. They look the same, that’s the thing.’

Hard: Emma Thompson revealed she thought there was pressure for young actresses to look slim ahead of her appearance at the Saving Mr Banks premiere in LA on Monday evening

Emma made her admission as she revealed it’s not just older actresses who have it tough. She continued: ‘They have to be this specific model size, and if they get on to the red carpet, they’re all having to walk like models and dress like models. I think the pressure is terrible.’

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However the much-loved actress revealed she wouldn’t have put up with it herself, saying: ‘I’d have told them where to shove it. I’ve always been a card-carrying feminist. But in those days, I was fierce, fierce, very angry. So I wouldn’t have put up with a single bloody minute of that.’

Her angry feelings towards appearance in the film industry didn't stop her from having fun on the red carpet though, as she got playfully frisky with Tom Hanks.
Natural: Emma was looking particularly slim at the premiere in a patterned brown dress pencil dress

Natural: Emma was looking particularly slim at the premiere in a patterned brown dress pencil dress

Tom fun: Emma got cheeky with Hanks and wife Rita Wilson at the premiere

The co-stars were playing for laughs, with the actor's wife Rita Wilson playing along as a second lady on her man's arm.

But it was not long before the trio could not hold it together any longer, and burst into helpless fits of laughter.

Tom, 57, looked dapper in a grey suit, while his other half wore a flamboyant black dress with golden shoes.

Big laughs: The trio could not keep up the pretense and helplessly burst into fits of laughter

Feeling the chill: The canny star made sure she arrived in the jacket to make sure she did not catch a cold

Mary Poppins is back in Disney's trailer for Saving Mr. Banks

But Tom was not the only big name excited to see the Oscar winner, for she also gave a meaty embrace to Paul Giamatti, before chatting with a very jolly Julie Andrews.

Emma plays Mary Poppins author Pamela "P. L." Travers, while Tom plays the ultimate silver screen mogul Walt Disney in the forthcoming movie, which tells the story of how the classic movie was made.

It explores her fortnight-long stay in Los Angeles where she was persuaded by the cartoonist to let his company turn her novel into a film.

The film gets a limited US release on December 13 before a wider roll-out a week later.