Britain's newest acting dame says she would love to make a movie in New Zealand – and she has just the project.

Speaking to Stuff ahead of the release of her latest film, The Children Act, Emma Thompson believes award-winning Kiwi webseries High Road is ripe for a big-screen adaptation.

Thompson featured, along with her husband Greg Wise, in 2016's third-series of the black comedy about ex-British rocker Terry Huffer's (Mark Mitchinson) misadventures as a Piha DJ. She played a fictional version of herself – one which posited her as Terry's sister – and stole the show by peppering her dialogue with a few choice swear words and comparing her sibling to The Rolling Stone's Keith Richards.

"It's one of my favourite things that I've ever done," Thompson said. "I laughed more doing that little episode than I've done in a long time. Me and Greg, 'oh god, we yelled - it was so much fun'."

Getty Dame Emma Thompson says she would love to come and work in New Zealand and already has a project in mind.

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She revealed that Mitchinson, a good friend of Wise's and who is also High Road's co-producer, had extended an open invitation for them to come over to New Zealand and "do a longer thing".

"And you know, I'm sure we will at some point. But I actually think they should make it into a film – it's just heaven and it would be a great film."

As for being named a Dame, the effervescent 59-year-old admitted it was "a bit of a turn up for the books".

"Initially I thought, 'ooh, the Empire, I haven't got much time for that...' and then I thought, '...except, ooh being recognised is very nice'. It made me feel quite proud."







Emma Thompson and Greg Wise featured in the opening episode of the third series of Kiwi web comedy High Road.