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Thompson was instrumental in bringing Mike Nichols to direct the project, and the pair spent months in rehearsal to get the complex character right. For her second Hollywood role, Thompson starred with John Travolta in Mike Nichols's Primary Colors (1998), enjoying a pair based on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about a housekeeper and butler in interwar Britain, the story is acclaimed for its examine of loneliness and repression, though Thompson was significantly desirous about taking a look at "the deformity that servitude inflicts upon folks", since her grandmother had worked as a servant and made many sacrifices. So there’s those sorts of backgrounds that individuals really feel uncomfortable, whether or not it’s about one thing, whether it’s about five issues, but additionally a lot of mother and father are simply afraid, such as you mentioned, that they’re going to create an inappropriate curiosity. Over all I like it, but one factor bothers me--out of the 4 finalists, only one's a girl? In 1994 over 180 states signed the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, agreeing to "eradicate all types of discrimination against the girl child". Set over someday in a Scottish seaside village, the drama allowed Thompson and her mother (Phyllida Law) to play mother and daughter on screen.